TUC at Brighton, right-wing delegates of the AUEW themselves by providing virtually the abstentions on the motion opposing the Act.
leader Frank Chapple, Duffy-Boyd leadership of the AUEW argue that the should opposed, because it holds out positions.
Things have gone a long way AUEW among the forces leading the against the previous legislative attempt to discipline unions and run their affairs the Relations Act.
Strikes A series of one-dav strikes in 1972 stopped the whole of the engineering industry and forced the Tories to back down bit by bit on their judicial attempts to shackle the unions.
The new Employment Act is every bit as pernicious and anti-union Heath's Industrial Relations Act. It has senes of measures which aim to make life easier for employers and difficult for unions workers.
will, for example, become much easier employers to justify sackings at industrial tribunals. open to many businesses to refuse to re-employ WUllICI who take maternity leave.
The advantage of voting in branches is that it is a system of distinguished collective democracy.
voting can hear the debates and only discuss out the different points of view held by union members before voting.
Propaganda
the Act The postal ballot stacks the cards for the right. entirely Many important election the the promise of state money to • individual union member who union votes trom home and doesn't her his meeting will be barrage of was propaganda for the right and against the left.
Tories' for president of the we shall certainly see the media machine swing into again support Duffy and about Wright. this cosy relationship between the Tory press and the right wing of the union leaderships which the postal reinforces.
Precedent
But leaving that argument aside. the use of state funds for any union activities creates a very dangerous precedent. Step by • step it croues and independence of the unions, which is so vital if they are to defend their members' interests for against both the employers and the government.
It speaks volumes about the oresent leadership AUEW that, only Frank Chapple handful others, prepared to have dealings with the Tories' Employment Act.
We can't rest until this rotten leadership removed. Voting for during Wright is the allE along this road. shop.
Those system branch bombarded press forthcoming scare stories It's precisely ballot Friday. the and Bob first step pickets over the last few weeks. CON-MECH: one episode in the AUEW's struggle against the Industrial Relations Act under the Heath government KING HENRY'S Meat Products factory in Manchester, where eleven workers were arrested after police attacked pickets last WITH the goods trucks latest models.
All manufacturers in Scotland -redundancies pipeline.
THE CON-NECI 08001 onset recession the heavy/medium truck market has started to collapse, with a 25 per cent drop in sales in the UK in the last month alone.
This is a reflection of the dent sharply declining volume of being transported, hauliers who are no longer expanding their fleets, and thus hanging on to older which they would normally replace with the the UK truck ERF in Sandbach, Seddon (International Harvester) and LVL South Ribble and have sizeable in the Fodens have already called in a receiver.
FOR SHOP STEWARDS TOMA LANGLEY cul-de-sac of import controls to the brick wall of the Alternative Economic Strategy.
more inappropriate course of action could not be imagined, for the industry is highly import/export depen Moreover it is well known that "Third World' and newly industrialised countries would be unable to afford the models that LVL build especially for this market. Hysteria The that Hino trucks are to be imported via a final assembly plant in Warrington has been greeted by shrill cries of anti-Japanese hysteria from both management and union leadership.
In response the Communist Party have drafted an emergency resolution which calls for the blacking of all Hino trucks and the lobbying of the TUC conference for import controls.
To this end the Confederahas organised a miniconference originally intended as a debate on how to save the industry but already being billed as a Jap-bashing session by the local press.
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ENGINEERS MUST FIGHT ACT ON THE first day of the Scanlon was president.