KEEP IT SAFE CORRIE BILI union organisation and speed-ups.
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funds this year.
EIGHT hundred workers face the sack at Aston, Birmingham, with the announcement that Allied Breweries Ltd plan to close their Ansell's brewery.
Coming at a time of ever-growing dole queues, this represents a direct attempt Lesistance by management to undermine trade Not only does Ansell's have the best gase worktorce In the Allled group nirm The decision follows a month-long strike against short-term lay-offs, redundancies Management have breached all agreements with unions and have forced many workers to lose up to f40 per week.
The employers blame workers for the They moan that "the brewery has suffered industrial conflict over many years", and that the workers' attitude has caused a loss of profitability.
This is nonsense. It has not stopped the brewery passing f500 to Tory party Nor did it stop more than £ 60,000 being passed over to Tory front organisations, such as British United Industrialists and Industrial Workers ridicule management's crocodile tears. The decision to close the plant came only after the attempted use of scabs from the employment exchanges failed to halt the strikers Arguing that "we will not grovel and we won't leave the micket line unti ou union says so", workers are standing BACKING Backing the actions of the brewery workers must come from wider sections •le labour movemen nowever Threatened engineers at Gardners in Manchester have already shown how a united struggle can beat back the present offensive on jobs launched by employers and their Tory government.
It took a seven-week occupation at Gardners to break the threat to make 590 redundancies The broadening support from other secrons or tne laoour movement - as. for example, shipbuilders and engineers in van chester - neweo une caroner. workers to force management to cave in and offer a f20 per week increase.
MARCH 1981 Below, Dave McLeod reviews a pamphlet which has become essential METIEL TE Williams and her cohorts - inclu-