ICL workers fight job Committee, West Gorton WORKHRo trom the compre o laby te MP)
their dozna dé díodoran dv uoe new management to cut 5,200 represents 17 per cent of the MOPS for backing or aised Rally ablul Lanci. against the redundancies and TOT COO CIe MaO saDOn of the company.
Stan Orme. shadow dustry pledged that future Labour government will not Just renationalise the 2 %0 coverumnchl recentiy sola oll by hatcher. but the whole of the company There W West delegations the Gorton, ASnIOn ane r vmoule rove factories in Manchester and most other including Letchworth and Kidsgrove.
The Manchester factories Will be the worst hit - 26 per cent of the workforce threatened. In a recent comWilmot, managing director of oi cocalol. Robb ICL, let slip that even after the present job loss we are, he 4,000 jobs Urcian" ncasi The three Manchester sites took one day strike action to urther industrial action is beoresen lne national uno Naripres represented on the Joint Union Committee have ing. It is Gardners Laurence DLUL wacupalvl and LuC VICtOr y inlal nave Torcea oca y anenester OTficials to back our campaign But we should have strength of the Confed behind Denny Fitzpatrick, West End Post Office Engineering Union BRITISH Telecoms vestigation Division identities are secret but whose operations are well known.
They lift you between Tam and sam as vou go into work and take you in for yuu don't co-operate IneT buddies the Regional Urme squaa ol scolland Yard — will arrest you. Villains All that's needed reasonable grounds for suspicion; and if the ID want to see you - that's reasonable. Shades of the employs a special In(ID), whose members' SUS laws!
Why has there suddenly been tnese activites or the ID? Well, thanks to the Daily Mail and Thames Television the public has been led to believe that the real villains in Telecoms alc the engineers. It seems we accept bribes, fiddle the system, carn Inousanas oI pounds a week and never why you can't get a line or a phone or whatever. So a massive ID police clean up is to protect the industry.
But who is it that really fiddles the industry, pilfers and wrecks it? None other than Keith Joseph and the Tories who have broken the Post Office monopoly, hiving off their friends in big business.
And it is the public who pays. This year alone, the consumers will have two increases in domestic Meanwhile the Tories • on DI so thạt not enough can be ¡aiscu lo ave « oecent ser vice to the public. Providing free phones for the old, laying cable to rural areas is not profitable dustrial action to stop the Tory wreckers.
For BT engineers the dawn raids are enough. In Centre Telecoms area the alesis were mel witn sit
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