Lay-offs at Lairds
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-02-09Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 15 →
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CAMMELL Lairds, Merseyside, management have announced 168 lay-offs starting on Monday February 13.
The 168 have been cabined up since Tuesday February 7, despite there being work for them to do. In fact, most of them were taken off jobs that were part-finished.
These lay-offs come after about 300 fixed-term contract workers were sent home on full A meeting of boilermakers' shop stewards is due to take place on Wednesday February 8th, with a mass meeting on Thursday 9th to decide on what action to take over the national enabling agreement and local management's proposals.
A mass meeting of boilermakers two weeks ago decided to oppose all moves to implement greater flexibility.
London NALGO has passed this resolution on the NGA and the anti-union laws. THIS Metropolitan District Council [of NALGO, notes with concern the lack of support for the NGA in its fight against the government's anti-union legislation.
In particular it criticises severely the two NALGO reps on the TUC General Council who voted against support for the NGA and also criticises the General Secretary of the TUC for repudiating the decision of the Employment Committee to recommend full support for the NGA to the General Coun-
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