STUDENTS OCCUPY TO FIGHT CUTS ey BL militant sacked

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The night shift manager opened the interview with the statement: 1 find it very distasteful to have to operate this procedure. If I had my way, I would have you frogmarched out of the gate' 'Political views"

We want Mr Average in this factory, he went on. If people like you crop up, we are here to crush them' Kilgariff was told that management 'don't like his political views' , and that they had noticed that he had recently acquired unsavoury friends' He was accused of being a ringleader in successive disputes, of being on TV during the Acclaim strike in October, and of going to Birmingham to lobby the convenors during the BL dispute in November.

At higher levels of procedure management said they regarded his 'crime' as more serious than that committed by Derek Robinson. The personnel manager drew the comparison even SHARP 37 AUEW and TGWU members are on strike at Jewel Razor, Sheffield, demanding the reinstatement of confurther.

He said it was not so much that the leaflet was unauthorised as what it said. In other words, Kilgariff was not being sacked for breaching company regulations, but for the ideas on the leaflet. This also explains why the right wing can distribute leaflets inside the plant with impunity.

A final meeting with the area personnel manager is to be held on Wednesday of this week, but there appears to be no serious possibility venor John Cunningham.

Last October, the workers put in a claim for a wage increase based on productivity.

To back the claim, when it became obvious they were getting nowhere in negotiations, they took action, going onto day work and banning overtime.

In November management announced two redundancies', one of which was John Cunningham, who was told that he was last in on his section (in fact he wasn't) and therefore first out.

There are now 26 people working in the factory nave cause the employers recruited part-time labour from the Job Centre on the understanding that they will cross picket lines.

But the strike is now official.

The dispute took a new turn_when a local councillor urged council lorry drivers to drop scrap wood off for the pickets. When a driver took this advice, he was suspended. This sparked off a strike by the 80 drivers at his depol.

Messages/money to: D.Brameld, "10 Parson Cross Rd, Sheffield 6.

DAVE AYRTON of a change company in attitude.

If management get away with a victimisation of this sort, it will be a major blow to trade union organisation in the plant. Action must be organised immediately if the victimisation proceeds.

And action could win this case. A supervisor was sacked recently in the Assembly Plant when an electrician accidentally left an isolation button pressed, delaying the start of a section of the track at the beginning of the following shift.

He was reinstated - 15 minutes before a mass meeting of supervisors was due to take place, with a recommendation for action. of Laurence Scotts told us: "Not enough people in the working class movement are showing the example required to win these battles. It is no use waiting for the right .wing leadership to do this. It must come from us once again. Carry on the fight and good luck."

The occupation sent a delegation to Laurence Scotts to support their strike.

Picket

The occupation ended or Friday from a position of strength to picket the Senate -the supreme academic body of the university-who were meeting to approve the implementation of 16% cuts.

The students' new found militancy ensured that not one member of Senate was able to cross the picket line which covered the five entrances and the meeting had to be abandoned. But as one picket said: "A short term success has been achieved, but the struggle goes on.

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