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Che latest to join are 1,200 Hawker Siddeley wirkers at Woodford, near Stockport. They spent their first day of sit-in strike yesterday after management threatened to suspend men who were banning overtime.

It is now clear that the big employers are offering at the most a wage increase that will be rapidly eaten away by rising prices. IN -In exchange they want even more productivity and redundancies. This is despite the fact that workers in the Manchester area have experienced savage speed-up, 14,000 sackings and widespread short-time over the past 12 months.

The employers have national from their federation in this bid But unions locally do not have backing from the top. The AUEW has made it clear at national level that the Manchester action should not be imitated by other areas. In both Sheffield and Oldham where district-wide claims were a possibility-plant-by-plant negotiations are Meanwhile, the right-wing leadership of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, which organizes most of the unlego ime only uctivi Bot men and sition the c -hour ek at Bre trike by offered a new proc sured-Day E uss deman‹ nis coffer'o tne Engineer leading W present at the advise: living standards. now in progress. talks between a big Manv abortive. er employer and unions the district-wide engineerpay claim have proved ons met combines.

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After Wednesday's meeting, management attempted to move work done by an outside firm from the NCD wiring shop and thus weaken the nine-week long strike by workers in the plant's NCD The work was immediately blacked by the wirers who have since been threatened. inster. significant that of the report released, the new In Ulster, W issued his " on its nindings.

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