'Strings' main danger from London talks on GKN-Sankey strike

MOCRACY NATIONAL officials of four car unions repesenting workers at GKN-Sankey's Wellington, Shropshire factory held informal talks with management representatives at a London hotel yesterday afternoon.

The talks followed a meeting of the Motor Industry National Joint Council earlier in the day.

Shop stewards' convenors and district officials of the unions involved-ALF. T&GWU, G&MWV EPTU -Patternmakers and were standing by during the talks.

They were seeking a tormula to settle the three-weekold strike which has cord pent plant duction at a number of key motor factories.

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The unions are demanding an all-round increase of £6 10s a week for Sanker's 5,000 workers, whose wages have been frozen for thé last 15 months.

3 25 0ed to a six-grade wage structure.

The structure, which reI motor workers at Britishe, factory yesterday voted the struggle of the sacked reinstatement.

their complaints through internal machinery of NUG&MW.' It is obvious that the union leaders have now abandoned the sacked glassworkers to their fate.

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Top trade union circles are believed to favour an intérim pay offer to the Sankey workers which would allow the company to go ahead with a productivity deal aimed at rationalizing' the factor's 250,000 piece-work prices.

AEF district secretary Joseph Diaz said yesterday that, if the talks were unsuccessful, productivity negotiations at the factory 'might have to start all over again'.