members, who have shown by their actions that they are prepared to down tools and come out in decisive call from the TUC could bring the great battalions of labour into action.
The outcome of such a victory would be enormous. This would tear the Tebbit Bill to shreds and open up a great breach in Tory wages policy. It would even have the potential to force the Tories out of office.
This action would reverse the process of capitulations in cars, steel and other sectors ficialdom has rolled over before the Tory steamroller.
If the labour movement loses this one it will be much harder to fight the zero pay limit next year. Alternatively defeat the government now would encourage the workers against wage freeze, unemployment and attacks on the welfare state.
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to to fight back On the domestic front nothing is as winning the health ALMOST 200 steel jobs are to go in Sheffield and Scotland if the closures go ahead. This new onslaught on the British Steel industry cannot go unchallenged workers. In Sheffield, River Don convenor, said that 'with the jobs preparing to fight for are throughout Scotland survival of their industry.
The week by the British Steel f Parkhea forge in the cast nose wee closure the Clydebridge works on the outskirts of the city involved the loss of 1000 jobs.
This is bad enough, in an area where many of the ment rate of over 20 per but it is the threat COLLE which these closures pose to the giant Ravenscraig steel works in Motherwell one of the three bulk steelworking complexes in Britain and still employing over S000 workers makes the present redundancy notices so imporOne of the plants to be closed, the Clydebridge platemill, maJor customer the Ravenscraig works, and it is feared that as the BSC management continue to out rading one mand the falling demand Ravenscraig works will be That's why the fight at recently announced Cliff Wright, the ISTC's Clydebridge and Parkhead are so important and the Workers at Clydebridge met representtatives of BSC Hallass ment with a very picket when the closures were being announced They were particularly angered that one of the given for the closure was their one day strike the previous week in support of the health service workers.
Jimmy Burtney, the chairperson of the joint shop stewards committee 'we are determined to fight this closure.
workforce at Clydebridge who are not interested in redundancy money. They're interested in their jobs.' Joe Cairney, shops steward convenor Parkhead was equally determined, 'the workforce here are shocked and disgusted. This closure has nothing to do our CuLCul. rather it is indicative of Plan this Tory government's policy and their treatment of Scottish industry.' Unfortunately the anger of the workiorce is not reflected by the Scotdeputy chair of the STUC LOOK the of the closure to call Io import controls and support for the Alternative
MacGregor
Economic Strategy, "The only long term solution involves import controls and the expansion of the market.
Clive Lewis, the Scottish organiser of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation arranging with the STUC meeting the miners and the railworkers to discuss joint action through the Triple Alliance Barr, Scottish organiser of the NUR has slalcu lal ne is confident that NUR membels support Joint action the stee workers So far Labour MPs in the steelmaking constituencies have been conspicuously lacking in
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Despite the feeble response from Sirs, general secretary of the steel workers' union, the ISTC, the signs are there for a fightback from angry
lost in the area there is nowhere for us to go. If we have to sit in, we will sit in.'
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