and there are no signs of a fightback at the moment.
As a result management is getting bolder. When calling voluntary redundancies the bosses luw sulbulalc wicre ley SAOLC come trom. This makes it cheaper for them because they exclude the older WUIKCLS with long service from the lists thus avoiding high redundancy payments.
Every grade of worker is involv4. - • setters, operators, assemblers and labourers. Within that overall mittulcyoul dre laving a par uCurday rough Young workers can't get into factories fo their first job. If they Halt Hatt culladi unc cannot find new work.
Places like Trico's are running down the mid-dav short shift which is very important for women with children.
Looking at the figures for the boroughs of Hounslow, Hillingdon and. Ealing the biggest percentage rise is in southall. ¡ us cicary in dicates a big growth in unemployment among West Indian tisidilyuul anle among black workers generally.
Sliding Obviously this is affecting wage settlements. In Lucas CAV it looks like they're settling for 10 per cent which is lower than expected. The stewards there have accepted that the company can't make a profit. However at Hoover they've inst negotiated an 18-25 per cent wage increase for the coming year for the next year they' ve agreed to 10 per cenop. cent plus a sliding scale tied But onc th (LUtA they will prob. ly have tbrec-figure redundan. cies. è =a: Saciefict Chatle On top of this some of the agreements are being signed with the tacit acknowledgment on the unnun siue bilal lere will oc a long summer shutdown and short-time working. Without a district or national alternative being offered the Illa orLy convenors stewards are making the bad job and selling jobs for wage IC. CasCS co-operaton management on the makeup of lists allows them to keep their own jobs.
the majority of the District Committee are Broad tied to a policy of import controls. At the same time they spend time trying Malla emenl mor for special treatment government for their region. All this defuses the national fight-back Combine Two related demands are now vital in the engineering industry worksharing without loss of pay and nationalisation.
Crown When Cork locai which factory workforce of redundancies then the organisation of worksharing without loss of pay is an immediate possibility.
When a national combine like Lt CAS announces its Birmingham redundancies then there is obviously a need for a fight through a natonlal sop sicward comoine committee for a national worksharing plan. Of course Lucas would never agree to this and then nothing short of a fight for nationalisation would make sense.
A major obstacle to such moves was the AUEW executive's sell-out of Derek Robinson. Every steward in the county wan surecen sy 4 aktr defence of Robinson automatically led to opposition to that HI- i subsequent redundancy and cosure plans. This could have paved the way for the nationalisation of the components industry to pro• 31 July 1980 Page 4 and best of a Left supporters COLlE approaches the Darticula tect jobs throughout engineering. 1 UC nEnEDaC reverses has to presidential September . Everv militant in like industry should be pulling has the stops against Duffy and for the declares Left candidate. His should be used as a starting point for action in the inaustry. ample we can't launch a campaign engineering against cles without raising the demand for a shorter working week. At the moment formally speaking our hands ied behin‹ because of last year's Boyd/Duffy settlement. So calling for an immediate break with LIC OCSOLI OTA emenlei riv ort lass her a t.
In the • 1e Union of Engineering Workers an successful the Electricians' would have LuC! wouid oc preparce Io government money bello hal enge inside the union. This is a members because in the previous the AUEW agains! unest leadership role.
start Now the this the introduction of secret because these WUIKOaC SUICIE Bob Wight the Broad campaign project for ror ex tion with redundanCent Bi have . our backs Rallies Wright should paigns in favour of Wright by th days Left supporters as well as by supAmalgamated Union have for Bob Wright to finance here and now. would be to propose fights against restrictive legislation sponsored by all the currents in the played a national current right-wing umon icadersmp are willing to set ballots first undermine the o le skor Hter stewards movement. Success in this Duffy would Coll run-off Solarle meaanganellor and pave the way for amalgama Chapple's EEPTU. The umon las to adopt a policy or com lete opposition to the Emplc toral failure best bulders of the In our area there will be camlead the Gazette duld Broad fy/Boyd leadership. ponat sis neded is ethe narimir Engineer's Charler. unity of these campaigns to win yolis that the Wiriack is possiet- and to ex Ches, SICS way to achieve this local rallies tivities that Wright in the areas.
renc TENISI HareDI'S in 1979, the HOUSEN, union supporting Wright and open to all stewards and members. for in the past Engineer's Charte has run against Bob Wright in the Around of the which was a correct tactic to ee policies across. They .then called for a vote for Wright in the The Broad Left have used this as an xcusieera e haring to do Engineer's cnnne culacii porters, but this time they can't use the Charter as a scapegoat for elecstrike •ringe Engineer's Charter is that in trying to be th Wright cam pargl wcy will Hot taise tae policie ad ar tanack agd nt to office.
fight Tories and the sell-out of the DufSocialist Challenge supporters should be putting forward policies of worksharing with no loss of pay and nationalisation in their bran eroded SUC TII tmmt ee district committee and in the course of bulding all the campaign of these y Peter Grant, ASLE addington Branci THE Tories are planning to sell off the most profitable of Sealink Hovercraft, Hotels, British Rail the city centres.
£60m were deducted.
will find Tories have creater nationalised BR Hortn -.the cast Around - IS This union the TOTa!.
wiltt Conference also insisted tha shal not alow wages in the public sector to be pegged as an 'example' to the private sector, no allow the hard-won conditions of service on the railways to Railworkers must push thi exccutives to take action in policies. We Face a bi struegle to save the Tail indestry.
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LIKE everywhere else, jobs in West London's engineer- ing industry are going fast,
Rail next for asset strippers