Trade unionists from GEC support the LSE picket lines National oo ers ay ma ss meetings wh t leand or the derisory offer crease from BL management.
The unions' joint negotiating committee which the TeorescnL. 58,000 car workers employed by BL recommended strike action as the only way to secure the demand board wage incoes e. f20 across the •enio shop stewards have endorse•mS col Tonoone strike Novembe and the mood in the major particularly •lauts Cowley and Longbridge, is that now meetings will decide whether or not to take strike action following of a 3.8 per cent wage inis the time to stand up Edwardes' bullying management.
This strike comes at crucial time for the SOLtlements due at _Fords Vauxhall and in the The only way. lo secure a decent wage and jobs is by confronting both Edwardes' plan for BL which has so far cost 60,000 jobs, and his Tory backers It is the Tories who are deliberately using unemployment to break the unions' strength inside such lalik those in BI And it is the Tories who take the political decision spend billions of fs on nuclear.
ratne paying decent wages and vu wcall oes However, the most important issue will be to ensure tnat tne rank and file does not let the MaLenCl OCCI: as Grenville Hawley, na tronal secretary automotive group of the transport union. sel us out by agreeing to a . Gomoromse setucmen! just or the strike starts.
The lesson that the BL workforce has learn. ed over the nast three years struggle is that they Cal Tel their own strength and the broad support of the labour movement when it comes to a fight with the management.
The next Region Five Broad Left of the Transport and General Workers Union will be Saturday November Birm ingham Na tional Broad Left meeting will take place " novemoer in york For further informa tion please write TGWL Left oredu Florence Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham