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111 Portland Rd, Nottingham. 'By Kay Bastin THE employers at Klein's clothing factory Salford have given in after an 11-week strike. The strikers were mainly women who'd never been out before, and they carried on despite the hardships involved.
The agreement is to abide by the outcome of an ACAS ballot on union recognition, which will be held when the workers return on Thursday.
WOMEN in Fleet Street last Friday, outside the law courts, protesting at the treatment Irish women are receiving in Armagh Goal, in the North of Ireland.
Contact: been confined to their cells for 23 hours a day, denied washing and toilet facilities, physical harassment from male and female wardens.
in The outcome is not in doubt - it will be a resounding Yes to the union, the Tailors and arren worker.
Although recognition not immediate, the workers 32 women who are demanding political status have and have suffered feel they have won a victory, forcing an employer reminiscent of Victorian days to recognise their rights.
which brought this about were picketing and boycotting PrOdUCES alt a day or acuon 14 May when Salford Trades Council demonstration past the facThe employers for the day and went to Blackpool! allow the women prisoners to live in humane condiMore contact could have been made will tac surroulding clothing factories, but the union feels that organisation or me may oner morans workplaces will now be possible.
The clothing industry is notoriously shop industry. Now that Klein an agreement, others had betwatch out.
The picketers called on the British Government to A similar picket took place at the same time outside
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