Spread Albion strike
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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IN ANOTHER show of resistance against BL management, 1750 workers at the company's Albion plant in Glasgow have been on strike since Monday against compulsory redundancies. The strike - unofficial and indefinite - came in response to management demands for 146 redundancies. After successive waves of voluntary redundancies, 'there are no volunteers left' ounced convenor James Maclean.
The urgent task.now is to spread the action in this truck plant into the rest of the BL corporațion.
out before, and are an important step in the fightback against the attacks on our standards of living.
A MASS meeting of Confed workers was held at Cammell Laird: Shipyards on Thursday May 5 to vote on a proposal to occupy the yard against enforced redundancies. The meeting did vote in favour of the occupation, but a large number abstained.
The issues involved at Lairds -and throughout BS - are not just redundancies, but privatisation of the yard, and a return to the days of casual labour: when you turn up at the gates, and if your face fits, you get a day's work.
A lot more needs to be done to show that there is an alternatve to the dole, and one of the main issues in this fight must be workers' control of their industry. Mary Lewis reports from the ASTMS conference The NEC of ASTMS opposed this, putting the only woman NEC member up to speak against it. But as the debate was about women, and a large section of the conference had decided to have nothing to do with them and gone out for coffee, to the NEC's dismay the motion was carried.
A similar exodus of delegates occurred in the debate on race relations.
The Broad Left fringe meeting was well attended - over 100 people turned up. But the founding conference of the Broad Leit will not take place untl July 4, policy and aims will be decided then. The temporary steering committee was thus holding a meeting to explain why a Broad Left was needed without being able to say what policies would be campaigned for.
In spite of it, the need for the Left to be organised was clear.
Michael Foot was the excitement of Sunday - and as he was uninspiring (despite the statutory standing ovation) you can see how boring the day was.
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