and those union leaders who want to rush to a settlement - any settlement - received yet another decisive slap in the face Thursday last week.
The 200-strong Coordinating Committee, representing the smaller craft unions involved in the steel strike, met in London and overwhelmingly rejected that their negotiators had the previous week.
A miserable 10 per cent on the basic and a blank cheque to sell jobs WYN BEVAN, Union convenor at BSC Port Talbot, Photo: P.M. Grant Ine. mittee met last week.
National Craft the offer through accepted streamlining operation. to 12,000 jobs at Port Llanwern. This Port Talbot.
Electricians' talked to Socialist Challenge before National Coordinating Com6 Apart from the size of the increase on the basic, which is only 10 per cent, the main thing that we are opposed to is the iniquitous clauses in the agreement which would allow the British Steel Corporation to the whole This would include the loss of up Talbot and would mean an immediate loss of 300 electricians at This offer is an attempt to drive a wedge into the solidarity of the strike. We have a unanimous mandate from our committee to use every means to oppose this deal, reject streamlining or slimming proposals and to protect jobs As far as we are concerned ans agreement now reached with the BSC must contain complete guarantees of no redundancy and no job loss.
It's about time that the TUC stood and thought. The unions can't go on selling jobs. The TUC has a record of doing this from the '20s onwards. We cant't have it this time.
There will be a bus load electricians going to London for the TUC rally and march on 9 March. There will also be a trainload of trade unionists from the Swansea and Port Talbot area.
Of any unanimous support for the Welsh general strike March. They've tried to buy off the miners in South Wales with the new subsidy on coal imports. This, and the Development Agency, pathetic £48m for CULCCELCO attempt unions with cold comfort.
of protect all jobs in industry.
government want - which it unions and the T have got to stand and fight against this government all the way.
OVER a hundred local trade unionists picketed the Chix sweet factory in are giving scheduled for the the part of a buy oft of the appeal was:
street', he said.
If the won't give us what we won't - then the days?
Cracks showed widespread the dilemma engineers finished products
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was the offer originally accepted by craft union leaders. But not for long!
We want a positive commitment from the Welsh and British TUC to