By Neil Cruikshank and Judith Arkwright determination that right to work Bill women ANN MOONEY and BETTY KIRKLAND and rights JA: I see you're wearing a badge 'I'm a Plessey suffragette how does your fight link up with the suffragettes?
don't know who Dre tined the badge - but courts. Like the suffraget we have to defy a law which is out of date and we have to draw attention to We preht like theytaid, / did. though, ordinary people trying to keep our Jobs don't feel should end the COURTS *hat shallenge JA: You mentioned that more skilled men in the plant had left occupation, All the women here seem pretty solid why do you think that is? BK: Well, some of the were highly skilled ould find jobs but th mạyb ther realisec that here for using erse ou out there for us. men involved in the sit in lost the fight to keep Neither Snipe nor the the union Since the they've committed an Billy Partlan.
by these people.
Tebbit? John Boyd calls for the the Scott workers they've received to women workers Issue of women's rights. On 5 June, the Labour • both When we go out or the delegations, the more women that go out more support we get haven'i had saying women shouldn't work anyway or that women should stay at home AM: Yes, a lot of people say to us that the women eem stronger. I think me re more reluctant som times because they feel they've got to keep a wage coming in - they can't afford to go on strike.
That doesn't mean our wages isnt't important when I first went out to work the money did used to be for luxuries - now it's for paying bills JA: Would you see your self as women's rights as well? AM: Well, we're fighting or everyone's rights here - men and women. But I certainly don't believe in the idea the little woman sitting the 1 might not campaign for women's rights much but | have my own ideas on where a woman's place should be.
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brutal eviction by bailiffs in August Scotland, has highlighted again the lead and
prepared to make in the fight for jobs. It has been the struggles of women like those at the successful Lee Jeans occupation last year that has awoken the Labour Party to the burning
Party is organising a big event for a woman's Judith Arkwright spoke to two of the workers at Plessey Capacitators
members of the clerical union APEX, about their fight for jobs and their fight for women's