Import controls | IMGpapers 1980

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are no answer TGWU steward, Rover Solihull Talbot plant at Linwood in Scotland.

In both countries. the demand for import controls is being taken up as a 'solution' unemployThe TUC General Council has asked atfiliated unions to develop policies and publicise them among their members.

The Transport and General Workers Union position is stated in Import Controls Now. This 52-page pamphlet is summatter for Import Coin narised trols and Planned Trade' Nine of the ten points dea with import contros Even the one point which deals with 'planned trade' states that 'pressure should be mounted CLOT general planning of trade in addition to selective imImport penetration sing controls penel alon rolling basis related to policy of economic expansion'.

Campaign The campaign for imcontrols the confront the employers or the Tories.

Point of the Charter Sales. *In preparation for the TWO weeks ago British Leyland announced the sacking of 2,000 workers at its Seneffe plants in Belgium. Last week, the French firm Peugeot announced its intention of sacking 4,500 at the Pat Hickey pected "U-turn" in the government's economic policies the Labour Party and the unions should mount maximum pressure on the government..

This whole approach is based on the belief that government polle is due to a mistaken faith in free enterprise and monetarism and that it is possible to force the government to 'change course'.

Controls But a closer examination reveals that import controls are not in the interests working

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