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The response of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, the largest union in the industry, has been pathetic. *This further loss of jobs', said a spokesperson, tragedy, but we are relieved that at least there is not works closure"
But the present annoncement orines lo more than 3,500 the redundancies announced in the past two weeks alone. How can anyone be "relieved" at that?
The unions at a local BAD TASTE BRITISH STEEL is to sack 1,709 workers at its special steel plants in South Yorkshire. These will come on top of the cuts already planned to March next year. In Rotherham mill this means a further 323 in adlevel are, however, meeting to work out a plan of resistance In Rotherham mill, the unIons are relusing .to meet management till after their joint committee convenes on Friday.
Mick Woods, works convenor of the boilermakers explained Socialist Challenge. by meeun of South Yorkshire crafts of six months ago. Then we decided unanimously do everything necessary to IRST WE GET THI save jobs and living standards. And this could mean strike. Our bottom line compuisory redundancies. have already had all the voluntary redundancies there were. Now everyone wants a job. We expeét a fight.
The strategy ISTC leadership is worthiess. According to them, These redundancies reinforce our case for a special buying agency to handk all imported steel'. As if this was the problem.
There has been drastic contraction of the engineering industry over the past two and a half years as a direct result of Thatcherite policics. N solution in the interests of