until then.
this "They for The explained comYorkshire breaking on UNIONS in Ford's, Britain's biggest car maker, have forced the company to phase out all trade with Shop floor workers at Dagenham have stopped production on several occasions when they discovered they were using South Africanmade parts.
In January, mass shop floor meetings decided to black all supplies to the KD export plant until trade with South Africa Manchester engineers A SPECIAL meeting of shop stewards has been called by Manchesterbased district of the Monday 9 March will hear calls for action in support of the seven Senior Colman in Sale Ninety workers took strike action in response workers who refused to fill out new time-sheets policy. The company promptly sacked all the workforce.
CPSA ballot victory BY 57,553 votes to 21,497, the CPSA voted lo establisi a pollica. fund. The union will proposed Labour Party affiliation The CPSA is also involved with three other unions in the civil service — the SCPS, IRSF and NIPSA - in a joint campaign for a was stopped. All meetings were unanimously in favour of the action which involved some workers stopping overtime The NUM has launched a national campaign 'Miners united against apartheid'. Over 100,000 copies of a special pamphlet have been produced and distributed - one for every NUM member The union has also issued a poster.
Wide backing has
been won from local engineers and from miners as far away as Durham and Northumberland.
Strikers' wives have initiated SWAG, the Senior Women's Action who are organising street collections, sending speakers to labour movement organisations, and accompanying strikers Striker Tony Lowe called for 'maximum solidarity' with the strike. 'We've seen for ourselves what the miners and Wapping strikers went through he said.
flat-rate increase of £20 a week, a f115 minimum wage and a 35-hour week.
The combined union membership of 300,000 will be ballotted in the week beginning 23 March. Industrial action plans include withdrawal of goodwill, an overtime ban and selective strikes.
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