THE People's March for Jobs arrives in Stockport on 7 May. It will be met by hundreds of trade unionists.
Storey's and branch Stockport Boilermakers union, JEFF WEST about the jobs battle and ¿the policies needed to fuel it.
In the early 1970s andancies at Storey's cre prevented by strike but now there ome complacency at work jobs as we haven't threatened yet redundancies.
This attitude will conuntil union ership against unemploynt and fights for it.
Stewards Our branch has circulated all shop stewards Stockport about the march and we're sponsoring our branch secretary on the march from Liverpool. All the branch officers are taking Thursday off work to round our members in the smaller factories.
supported the Liverpool, and Glasgow demonstrations and sponsored too have since got involv-ed in the branch activities.
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A 35 HOUR WEEK NOW!
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RIG • Joans women in Downing Street women's rights picket last Monday of told help one or two of our members to find jobs, thereby showing help the prepared to support those fighting for jobs. We have supported the Gardner's and Lightning Mixers occupations.
I think the unions are to blame for letting the 2½m The tues lave that the Tory government unbeatable. The unions nationally should organised more action to achieve the same.
I don't agree with imDO COON C they can backfire on us. We lost a bridge order in Indonesia because of some restrictions made on their goods. Solution Action by those in work for a shorter working week would start to solve te problem or unemployment. Overtime should be banned in the next round of national engineering negotiations. Coupled with a 35-hour week this would make an immediate difference to unemployment.
The unions and the next Labour government would have to look at ways creating and retraining people into viable industries.
need is a trong government prepared to carry out Labour Party policies: a Labour government and party that involves shopfloor workand relates to their needs. In fact, a Labour government committed to repared to stand by them socialist policies through thick and thin.
It's better to lose an election by fighting for these policies than losing them down, Healey did. Callaghan and think Tony Benn would capable eading such a governmen - at least he thusiasm for carrying out policies I believe the money to pay these policies could be found. For a start all the money wasted on benefits could be used instead to create jobs.
Resources are wasted on atomic submarines.
nuclear warhead. That money could be used to invest in our future, through the health service and our children's education.
The unions should challenge the government over youth unemployment. Money is needed for retraining to allow young men and women to choose trade they want follow. The YOPS schemes are just 12 months off the dole queues And the unions should pressure firms to employ portunities, not to use the excuse that there sould be treated picants toilets. Job • equally and not put off because they're women.
Little has happened yet into the unions. government putting them in a position of stary taking low-paid jobs. We need a national minimum wage, otherwise going back to situation where the working class is downtrodden and cap in hand.
That was the reason for the unions in the first place to defend workers' interests. They should start doing that ILUW Valerie Coultas: one of the marchers
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Laurence and Scott's: another factory occupied by workers in Manchester in CLAS