Left slate sweeps the board
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IN a remarkable victory for the left, four of the five stewards on the left slate were elected as TGWU deputy senior stewards in the BL Cowley Assembly Plant.
The votes received for the 14 candidates standing for the five positions were as follows (in a secret ballot):
Ivor Braggins [left slate| 468 Alan Thornett [left] 443 Andy Brown [left] 409 Cy Blake [left] 408 Tom White (WRP| 352 Frank Corti [right slate] Bob Cullen [left] 333 Jim Barson (right] 315 Albert Paintin [right] 22 Peter Boyles [right] 143 Roy Brough [right] 116 Tony Wally 103 Mick Harris 71 M.Afzhal 52.
April 18 25 411 19 26 13 20 28 21 29 22 30 • ' 17 24 Slightly under 1,000 members voted out of the 2,400 TGWU members in the plant. The percentage poll, slightly beiow the recent convenors' election, was reduced by the strict administration, requiring attendance at a polling station and the production of the current union card.
The failure of the right wing slate to gain a single position removes from office the last of the right wing brought to power by the victimisation of Alan Thornett and the media witch hunts of 1974. The vote for Tom White (who has previously been on both slates) slumped to drop him from first position to nu.5. The Newsline, which conducted a campaign for White, has not commented on the result.
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