was sacked was sacked There *It is no coincidence that statements management were put out during the period up to my sacking about redundancies and short-time working. But the company as a whole has increased profits 100 percent over the last three years We have gone from being the lowest paid 1975 to the highest paid Ferranti's 1982. This started with nine-week strike in 1975 We did well out of that in terms of wages but it also really strengthened the union organisation in the factory. This had a big effect in all subsequent disputes.
Management's target in sacking Tony is precise ly to undermine unis imon organisation This came out clearly at the appeal ON 27 SEPTEMBER the joint shop stewards Cairo Mill, supposedly is no substance to managements card was incorrectly filled out by the convenor Seven weeks after the event, they sacked him Tony Purtill, convenor of Ferranti Cairo Mill, hearing after the convenor's dismissal on Thursday 30 September Managment proposed that give all union credentials in exchange for the offer of a job in a dirferent section. Thus their was not deal with an alleged clocking offence' but to remove an effective union convenor.
The dispute is now going through the final stages of procedure with an external conference between union officials and management on Thursda The Cairo Mil shop steward have laid the response a basis for determined the ment decide to carry through their attack and this could be extended to the entire Ferranti group nationally
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committee convenor of Ferranti Oldham,
charges. They allege that a clocking-in explained the background to Laura Mitchell.
defrauding the company and gross industrial misconduct. The workers held a mass meeting voting for industrial action if their convenor