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BOTH the main steel unions report complete support for the strike in the That means that out of 25,000 employees, 19,000 are on strike.
The mood is bitter, since cuts of jobs been recently declared in the area. The Consett plant is threatened with complete closure and other jobs are threatened Tees Works and Redcar with its giant new furnace.
The first meeting of the District Strike Committee decided, in its own organise secondary Transport workers at the big steel point at „Hartiepool attempts to import stockholders are being picketed throughout the North East. Lorries are being turned away from the largest steel stockholder Robert leaving 600 tonnes of steel stranded.
Pickets in Middlesbrough told us that railway workers have said that all steel will remain where it was on 1 Likewise a coal carrier carrying a cargo for the steel plant remains strike bound till the end of the strike.
effects of the strike are to bite rapidly in to propaganda being promoted about the invinci bility of the employers.
contractors have been off. Rail Eastern been badly affected, losing the £0.5 million per week that it gains from BSC custom.
A local pay offer similar in form to that being negotiated nationally has been rejected by local officials.
They say that they want to settle nationally and the 17 per cent offer has too many strings attached.