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Workers Press no. 844, 17 August 1972 · scan pages 11, 12

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that if group management did not meet them within seven days then all craftsmen would work as prior to signing the MPA, 1.e. no interchangeability of cratts, no flexibility between craft and non-craft and no mobility in certain departments.

On Monday, August 7, management called a meeting and offered a shift differential award of £1.00, to which the craftsmen were already entitled, and said that craftsmen on the 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. shift would only work to 4.00 p.m.

This was already in the MPA but had never been implemented.

The offer was thrown out and the overtime ban was continued.

During the next two days, the craft unions were told that unless the sanctions were lifted the works would be shut.

On August 14, the engineers union called shop stewards' meeting to discuss a letter from BSC divisional industrial relations manager M. W. Ballin. Moscow Trials Anthe Paperback, 62½Р MAX SHACHTMAN: Behind The Moscow Paperback 75p dainism in ordin Duidain Paperback £1.12½-cloth LEON TROTSKY:

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