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37 AUEW and TGWU members are on strike at Jewel Razor, Sheffield against the victimisation of their convenor. They want blacking and financial support. Contact: D. Bremeld, 10 Parson Cross Rd, Sheffield AT INVERGORDON, at Brynmawr, and at Newhaven, sit-ins for jobs remain solid.

At Invergordon, over 100,000 signatures have been collected from local people in support of the workers occupying the BACO smelter. The workers are also planning another lobby of Parliament.

But a tour of workplaces by workers from the occupation, asking for support, donations, and blacking of BACO, could rouse the power needed to save the jobs. Write to Action Committee, Invergordon Smelter, Ross-shire, Scotland.

At the Dunlop Semtex plant in Brynmawr, management is refusing to discuss redundancy money until the occupation is called off. But the 300 workers are sitting tight, fighting for their jobs.

Sealink management have been discussing options with the French railways, SNCF, for maintaining the Newhaven/Dieppe terry serivce. "This is obviously due to the pressure mounting up on them by the continued occupation of the Senlac" John Newman of the Merchant Navy and Air Line Officers' Association told us.

'We will not be ending the occupation until a solution satisfactory to us, saving the ferry and the jobs, is found"

But mostly the national unions involved are giving little real support.

These workers are showing how to fight for jobs, to win they need the PHOTO: JOHN HARRIS backing of the whole labour movement.

A Gallup poll recently showed most workers would be prepared to cut working hours to save jobs - though the poll did not make clear whether this would mean loss of pay.

The demand for work-sharing with no loss of pay must be raised now, in a united mobilisation of the labour movement.

JO THWAITES DEF EATED BUT STRONG LAST Friday, striking ASTMS members voted by 13-9 to return to work at Rank-Wharfedale in Bradford. Management have therefore beaten their 'no flexibility' ban which was the response to the management's imposition of a 3% percent plus fl wage increase.

During their three weeks on the picket line the trikers received no suppor rom EEP and FTAT workers. The full timers of both these unions did not even call a meeting to discuss the strike.

AUEW members •were advised to continue working. The ASTMS strikers received minimal support from their full-timer, Convenor Harry Waring obviously disappointed by

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