ASLEF needs you! •We can't afford to lose!' said Peter Gunn, (ASLEF Manchester No 1) speaking in a personal capacity at meeting organised by Manchester Socialist Challenge.
The speakers, Peter Gunn, Bob Barrow (chair Newton ASLEF) all agreed the roard and and a Kings Cross the Tories set the thing up Like workers at Leyland and Steel the railworkers had been picked out. Services 'The Tories Luddites,' explained Bob 'It is they who are the Luddites They want to smashup British Rail. I Is they who want to take us back netore wnen we wor the 8 hour guaranteed day. It is not us that want to go backwards 'In the last 30 years the number of footplate men has fallen from 90,000 1o 24.0W. Any more culs ! staffing levels and there won't he a service at all. 10 per cent of drivers are on the sick because thev can l lake the stress of the job. In the same period that the workforce has fallen the Over CUTI number middle and senior management has in creased hy over per cent. I is ihe workers that are paying for improvements.
'The Tories give British Rail as mucn casn as iney need to smash ASLEF But when it comes to lav ing out money to improve the want to know. scivile they The Board don't nave renegea on their agreement to pay the wage increase, saying it must be linked to productivity by which they mean redundancies or peter parke gets a 24 per cent wage inand only crcase four day week Who's paying for that? It comes out of a cut in our wages and conditions 'If we los the cight hour day, it will mean the 4000 drivers' jobs by 1985. But this is only the thin end of the wedge With the proposals on the McCarthy Tribunal: It's the ASLEF (personal capacity)
The strike is still 100 per com come our with any othe decision than it came out with previously •He's difficul what they said about the ? now nev can co pack o It should he graned I separately iscussions on productisin The problem is the solati issuc. I ther recommend go rail are seand inge needall railworkers. united fight back. Industry "If the drivers lose, all workers will lose. explainCross. unior will be smashed. This dispute is being used to pave the wa!
Tebbit's anti-unior laws £20,000 for each scab and an attack on the very right to strike.
All the speakers agreed that unity and are indispensable The news ind Manchester City Labour Party is to sponsor a rally to help the railworkers get the support they need was warmly welcomed.
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