member and guard, made this announcement to the 258 delegates at the guards and shunters grades conterence Brighton last weekend. The conference was in a fighting mood right from its start when it reported that the was general secretary, Sydney Weighell, had attempted to rule out of order 15 of the 48 resolutions submitted, including those against flexible rostering and 'one-man operation of trains.' The president of conference said that the executive committee of ed this attempt to break down the autonomy of the grades conferences, and the resolutions were taken.
John Marks, Kings Cross No 1 branch spoke against the conference executive's decision not to call a special grades conference to discuss flexible rostering. The secretary, Geoff Hensby, Paddington No 1 MAY 1982| 'FLOAT OF ANGER' is how the local press dubbed a float in Horwich carnival in Lancashire last weekend. black, portrayed workers performing different tasks all being axed by an axeIt was produced by workers at British Rail's Illal. local workshop, protesting al plans to ciose It dowli.
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including schools, and the labour movement, including trades and the Labour Party. The workers petitioning and earletting has now spread ram Bolton and Wigan to recognise cha: 28 May 1982 Flexible The support ASLEF's stand was lustrated not only in the unanimous resolutions against flexible rostering and for all future negotiations to be on the basıs of a fixed guaranteed day, but the loud shouts delegates when Tuck blamed the bad response among NUR members to flexible rostering on the ASLEF dispute.
Delegates begged to differ and said that flexible rostering had been troduced to pay for the 39 hour week at no cost to management, and that it was a "productivity' deal which