Foyles lose case
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pyard struggle IN a test case, three out of 17 workers sacked by Foyles Bookshop in London have won their industrial tribunal hearing.
The 17 were sacked for recruiting to USDAW. After picketing the shop day after day, they were forced by lack of support from their union leadership to pin their hopes tribunal.
The tribunal has recommended reinstatement for two and compensation for another worker who did not want to go back to Foyles.
Foyles, a rabidly anti-union employer, declared they would rather close faye Cammel Laird mass meeting Shi STEWARDS at Cammeli Lairds shipyard, Birkenhead, will be leading members from their jobs at ten minutes before each break this week.
They are defying a management decision to cut the time allowed for getting from jobs to the brew huts and washed trom ten minutes to nothing.
When the decision was announced, the yard struck from Friday June 18 to Tuesday June 22. We than reinstate unionists!
Unfortunately the alternatives are not so drastic. An industrial tribunal cannot force an employer to reinstate workers, and the worst Foyles will face is having to pay damages. returned to work when management agreed to withdraw disciplinary procedures under the new time limits and to revert to the status quo for 48 hours while negotiations continued.
The June 22 mass meeting decision was not a clear one for the return to work, and there is a lot of bad feeling towards the stewards' committee for failing to make a recommendation.
But a further mass meet-