Sankey claim

Workers Press no. 253, 15 September 1970 · scan page 2

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labour Despite the great militancy of the site or tem the two sites including their convenor Bob McKenzie were" "ärrested;

fined and bound over keep the peace - the strike was defeated.

This is an exceedingly severe blow construction wod e throe criticismt ain As the GKN and Pilkington's ue unors havoved strikes have shown, the emlovers are in' no mood for concessions, but will fight determinedly against every ware demand. in this support of the Tory go eml Every major industrial dispute wient.

today is therefore a political A SURPRISE turn in the strike situation in GKNSankey's Shropshire car components plant came yesterday when a move to drop the 4s 3d-an-hour, 'no strings' demand pressed so far was supported by a meeting of Transport and General Workers' Union members.

The union's stewards will now attempt to persuade tomorrow's joint stewards' meeting to abandon this definite demand and revert to a call for substantial increase' with which they started the strike.

Announcing this decision, T&GWU district official George 'Wright said that while the company's offer was still unacceptable as it stood his members were hoping to get a more satisfactory 'mixture of ingredients'.

'I would not say we have lowered our demand,' he said. •We have suggested that more flexible approach should be adopted.' But negotiations on this basis — if agreed to by the other stewards—would leave the company's vicious productivity strings intact; with only money in dispute.