Airport strikers
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-03-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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The fund is dangerously slow this week. We've had £35 from Coventry, £4 from Oxford, £2 from Bridgewater, and £4.75 from Leigh. The total of £45.75, with £89 in standing orders so far this month, leaves us with £208.25 towards the March target of £1,000.
Send contributions to Socialist THE strike by 2,000 ramp workers at Heathrow is still solid. As we went to press, a meeting of all TGWU stewards in Heathrow was being held on Tuesday evening, 9th March, and TGWU members in the short-haul base were planning a stoppage from Thursday evening in protest at scabbing by other Heathrow workers who are doing the ramp workers' jobs.
Support
The TGWU has officially approached all other unions at Heathrow for support, and drivers from outside tanker companies, in particular. are honouring the picket lines.
The ramp workers were locked out by British Airways bosses four weeks ago when they refused to accept now work schedules, with an extra 1½ hours a week, a block on guaranteed overtime, stiffer penalties for being late, and moving workers from job to job.
Last week the government arbitration service ACAS said it would intervene but no talks have yet taken place.
Mike Le Cornu, chairperson of the ramp workers' committee, told Socialist Organiser that the strikers FUN We can't afford to fall short!
28 Middle Lane, London N8.
especially need financial support from the whole labour movement. Donations should be sent to: R. Davies, 1/238 TGWU, c/o Feltham Community Centre, Hanworth Road, Feltham, Middlesex, UD