Glencroft faces union sabotage

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from 41 Ellington Street, London 917 marnock, and are due to reappear in court in mid• automatic sacking for anyone who struck without going through procedure, • no payment for time lost' due to the walk-out.

Rejected An official recommendation to return to work was overwhelmingly rejected by a mass meeting of the strikers on Thursday September 4th.

AMC, the yard's owners, sacked all 900 strikers. Phillips Petroleum announced that they would have the platform towed away for completion in Holland. The union leaders threw all their energy into smashing the strike. And the police went into action against the pickets.

FRESH from trying to sell out the workers at Rolls Royce Hillington (see facing page), AUEW official Gavin Laird this week reapplication for jobs by all who had been sacked.

On Monday September 29, a mass meeting of GWU members voted for a return to work, but the Boilermakers' mass meeting voted to continue.

•'The boilermakers are acting like lemmings and complete anarchists" raged Scottish GMWU regional secretary Jimmy Morrell.

Scabbing The Boilermakers' general secretary and the GMWU issued a call for organised scabbing: 'it is imperative that our joint membership respond to this directive and apply chaired a joint committee of shop stewards and officials to discuss Hoover's job-cuts plans.

Hoover want to shut their attended by over 100 trade unionists, in order to publicise the betrayal by their misleaders, and to carry on and broaden out the fight, Scottish TUC general secretary Jimmy Milne denounced it as an attempt to break up the STUC!

And the Hunterston stewards were barred from addressing the annual conference of Scottish Trades Councils secretaries and chairpersons and the STUC convention against unemployment last December.

We need to build a campaign in defence of the two trade unionists still to be tried, and to make sure that the lessons of the Hunterston dispute are not lost. Perivale (West London) plant and cut hundreds of jobs at Cambuslang (Glasgow) and Merthyr Tydfil.

Laird said that the unions would back the Perivale workers if they took action to resist the closure, and stewards from Cambuslang and Merthyr said that they would black the transfer of work if Perivale took No.1a Octaber 18đt Monthly the women's campaion LABOVA MOVEMENT FIGHTBACK FOR WOMEN'S Right and • fratee. and the nappigs rows hausewi/ays of baing • tred to the kitchen sink ender te explolied cavar Tha ho tà tra much mưn home reity fall in THE fifteen women on strike at Glencroft Knitwear, Glasgow, for reinstatement and union recognition, now face the threat of their union withdrawing official support.

At a meeting on Friday October 30, national officials of • the NUHKW told them that the union would continue to pay strike pay for the nest three weeks, but would then review the situaton, depending on how much support came in.

But so far the union officials have often done more to hinder than help support. Before the women can speak STAFFA workers in East London are still picketing their plant to save jobs after being evicted from it by 300 police.

Mass pickets have been called for each Mandav mornine.

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Events the women have been told not to attend include the Laurence Scott support conference on November 14 and last weekend's demonstration commemorating the Jarrow march.

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Glencroft workers' had been passed on shop stewards at the t, but he did not know was happening about Blacked Our members will be looking out for Glencroft stuff, he said. 'And it will be blacked if they spot any. But really been so busy with : lem at British Airways uiar it has taken up all our time'.

No-one at the freight terminal at the airport knew anything about the supposed blacking. TGWU members at the British Caledonian, Seryisair, and Lepair depots said that they had not even heard about the dispute and did not handle Glencroft products anyway.

At the KLM and SAS depots, cuts in manning levels have resulted in office staff (in APEX) handling the freight. But they too have never heard of Giencrott. 'The British Airways people might do that kind of thing (i.e. blacking) but it's not the kind of thing we go in for • an APEX member at SAS amiably remarked.

But at the British Airways depot it was the same story: the shop steward had heard nothing about the dispute. And although British Airways used to handle Glencroft products, he said, it was years since anything from them had passed through the depot.

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Other depots at the airport are run by cowboy firms, and non-unionised.

What has to be done now, and should have been done a long time ago, is establish just where Glenvroft products are shipped out, and implement effective blacking. If they are going through non-unionised depots, this would mean getting CPSA members to black the customs and excise forms.

The other thing that has to be done is build support for the picket line. The NUHKW officials should spend less time preparing for the industrial tribunal, and more time organising support from other trade unionists for the picket line.

. Picketing at Glencroft Knitwear, 128 Ingram St, Monday-Friday, 7.30am to 4.30pm.

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The workers are also calling for black- ing of Staffa products, and messages and money can be sent to: Staffa AUEW strike committee, 39 Somers Rd. Walthamstow,

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