[A MASS meeting of the 2,000 strikers at…]
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-09-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 15 →
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A MASS meeting of the 2,000 strikers at the Highland Fabricators yard in Nigg voted last Friday to return to work.
Six of the yard's stewards were summoned to London prior to the mass meeting, where union officials, headed by John Baldwin of the AUEW, demanded acceptance of the agreeLAST weekend's conference (17 September) on privatisation was the best thing to happen in NALGO for some time.
It was called by Leeds NALGO and initially shunned by attracted 300 delegates, and in the end some National Executive Committee members and union full-timers did attend.
The conference brought together militants to form the basis of a national Broad Left, with the number one aim of fighting The most impressive speakers were lan Stephenson from Bury NALGO and David Blunkett, leader of Sheffield City Council.
Stephenson described the fight against privatisation in Bury, which has succeeded in mobilising council workers and working class community organisations and defeated privatisation plans so far by industrial action.
Blunket described his concep: tion of the way in which council, workers and community should stand firm against the government. He stressed the need for aggressive, innovative policies rather than a stonewall defence of the flawed welfare state of the last 35 years.
However, while his contribution was both intelligent and left-wing in terms of the status