WORKERS Oxygen are fighting back. At national stewards combine meeting, the first since the victorious pay struggle in 1977, delegates BOC depots throughout the country voted for nationwide overtime ban from next Monday.
This is the first step to make the company with• araw its 'slimline' proposals which, according to stewards, could threaten up to a half of the 3,600 workforce.
The meeting also voted for a fight for 35 hours retirement for all ery retirement for with no loss of benefits, and full replacement of all vacancies crcalca by Introducing these measures.
The delegates launched a fight to keep open the BOC depot in Corby by means that every remaining job has to be fought for.
To try to prevent threatened workers in Derby with the closure of their depot. The boycott only be called off when threats and are withdrawn and all Ban Both the national overkeep Corby open are now part of a fight by the com.
bine to protect every Job in BOC and for the introducwithout job loss, of the 35 hour week and early retirement.
removal of agency staff.
When the demands of the workers, designed to improve under-staffed chronically service, were turned down, a ballot produced four-to-one majority in stavow limited industrial action.
management took disiplinary action against three members of staff. An all-out strike is the result.
So far, two-thirds of the council's 17 day-care establishments have been closed by the strike, 010 h with strike pay at only £4 a week support is urgently needed. - Contact: Ealing NALGO branch, Town Hall, London WS. Tel. 01-579 2293 359 8371, for more informa Sat 27 Sept, FRACTION. Sept tional was held will agencies, other liberation and solidarity support SWAPO (South African Organisation) the the Namibia's mineral wealth by the Western tions October to of of the con. ference, included wing countries in Such DONE Western powers came negotiating settletheir the to settle the the Nations tlement and in West many - shows that the solidarity campaign urgently needs to be stepped up.
In Britain, a campaign co-ordinating committee is • sup- being set up to implement La solidarity campaign during the next few months Send a representative from your organisation to attend the campaign meetings, or contact the " LO Namibia Support Committee for details of planned activities In the North West, the dayschool and demonstration to stop the import of Namibian Haul Is example of how effective fore . against •noon, Polytechnic March day-school 73109. details
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