Shipyard Sackings Sai
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-01-27Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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2300 JOBS to go by the end of March, and more redundancies to come before the end of the year. That's what British Shipbuilders announced last week.
The job losses will mainly. be in the north-east, with 500 jobs to go at Swan Hunter, Wallsend, and 415 at Sunderland shipbuilders.
A delegate conference of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions last week decided to send delegates back to the shipyards to build support for action against the job cuts. A final decision on what action to take will be made at a further delegate conference on February 17 They've got everything companies are meant to want: increased production and modernisation, but our jobs will go down the pan.
In the past the unions there (TWU, AUEW, ASTMS) have been rather weak. But there are people now in the unions who are the main offices that Tebbit's proposed tour was cancelled. The workers' demonstration - effectively a strike - had made Tebbit 's tour of the shop floor impossible.
The feeling was summed up by the waving of a bicycle and a banner which read 'On your bike, Tebbit!
Aly Mir Coventry SO
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Socialist Organiser. no 7 January Paxe