A MAJOR scandal concerning overtime working has hit Ford's Dagenham workers in the Foundry and Engine plants have been on short time working for most of the past year.
On Thursday senior stewards in the engine Diant took lo a snoo stewaras meeting the company's argument for overtime working on line (OHC) and in the related machining areas which supply wtn.components. One worker's overtime is another's job where thousands of This disgraceful proposal was are ica ucsolle une Dillei UnL stewards themselves. company's 'need for overime yorking arises sho tact that June alusic engine Dant workers de be. ing transferred to the Body cheme plant nave been lose Amongst Ine bresent Cucuon iness •CIr cumstances. rore wants hours a day working so it can to do the displaced workers' jobs The situation even worse in the machining areas where the number of shifts is Deing reduced Irom unrec two and the workers on the re maining two shifts are being plus Saturdays anc i nis is ine clearest ucmulsul a on inal one workers over time is another worker's job.
In effect Engine plant may ores to the Body and the UlIS Assembiv plants. Bv allowing it to happen senior stewares have kissed another 500 jobs Engine plan the union eadership in the across Dagenham estate which has seen www oos asapocal I the past year Overtime work today is a guarantee of more layoffs and sackings tomorrow. By Phil Dexter, CPSA Newcastle civil service trade unions.
The Tour main unions involvea -IRSS, and the CSU and indefinite.
cent) or we fight to win and public expenditure cuts.
act and win this dispute.
solidarity from other unions. civil service trade union beaten. THE civil service dispute is now, incredibly, in its 14th week, and decision time has arrived.
The government is hell bent on sticking to its cash limit. The Tories are out to smash the selective action has bitten hard, but it has not been enough to win. The CPSA, SCPS have called for an all-out strike, which ought to be both immediate Although the selective action policy has worn down the membership, we have no choice. We either accept the 7 per cent offer (while MPs have awarded themselves 18 per If we lose this battle we are set to be smashed for years to come, and management will be able to force through massive job loss through the introduction of new technology The Council of Civil Service Unions must against us will be enormous and we'll need Despite the leadership shown so far, the membership has grown up in this dispute. Like the miners, we can prove that the Tory government can be
----- pull-quotes -----
and Assembly plants. more than a year around one- third of the 5000 jobs in the
transfers is nearly one half of the current OHC work force. Unable to maintain pro-
run the OHC line at half speed while other people are trained big