[AFTER nearly 3 months on strike things are…]

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AFTER nearly 3 months on strike things are starting to pick up again for the Carousel strikers in Glasgow, fighting for reinstatement, union recognition and better working conditions.

TGWU members in the docks have blacked Carousel products, with one container-load of them already prevented from being shipped out through the Liverpool docks. And TGWU members at the containerisation depots have also pledged blacking for all Carousel products, to make sure they never get as far as the docks anyway.

After one of the strikers addressing their branch meeting, drivers in a Glasgow TGWÜ commercial branch are blacking Carousel products too, aswell as demanding that the Co-operative Wholesale Society, for which some of them work, stops selling Carousel wafers.

Increased support for the dispute is being organised in the local community by mass leafletting and holding public meetings, whist Saccomando criticism in the Daily Record, the Scottish equivalent of the Daily Mirror.

Problem

The major problem at present is the weekly mass picketing. Although the strikers themselves have maintained the daily picketing of the factory, there has been no growth of support for the one day a week mass pickets. If anything, the turnout is now starting to decline again, after a period during which it was steadily growing.

In order to boost support for the picketing, the strikers are calling for a West Scotland shop stewards conference to organise mass support for the picket line. Union and Labour Party members should be taking up this demand in their respective branches, as well as continuing to build support for the picketing in the meantime, and sending solidarity messages to those trade unionists carrying out blacking of Carousel products.

For speakers/further information about the dispute/dates of the weekly mass pickets, phone Carousel strike headquarters, (041)-763 0922.