ment and the inions to discuss, the com-.. Walsh, knows the, importance of such & , the company on its national redundancies By Tessa van Gelderen acetylene Oxygen's depot in London stewards meeting on Sunday.
The stewards, THERE will be no closure of the department Hackney, that's the message that came out of the southern region shop who came from the large majority of the depots in the region, agreed to make the threatened closure a national issue. It will be put on the agenda at a meeting this week between managepany's streamlining proposals 'Streamlining means workforce by 10 per cent, getting the rest to do the same amount of work, and handing them a one-off payment of £214. But if Sunday's meeting was anything to go by, British Oxygen will not push through its proposals as easily as it might hope.
BOC depots in Greenwich, Bristol, and Cardiff will refuse to take Hackney's work if acetylene department Customers around Hackney acetylene, but it's proposed to bring it from these other depots The convenor, of Hackney, jecision: Solidarity from Cardiff and the (sorry cutting the closes. has to respond still want John other depots will result in British Oxygen having a fight on its hands,' he says.
The company has offered to remove the threat of compulsory redundancies altogether — on condition that the union agrees that the department would close in John Walsh does not intend to sign Now the Transport Union at national level to the call the southern region shop stewards.
The solidarity and the will to fight is there. A lead has to be given. A success at . Hackney will be the best weapon to defeat
- no job loss