Pilkington in jobs action body

Press STEP U IT IS going up but not yet fast enough. Our target is £1,750 to raise by the end of November and we have £382.15. We know that with a huge effort we can more than raise It. Let's therefore go into action this weekand and push our figure right Thousands more workers are taking up the fight to defend their wages and living standards. Prices continue to rocket. Whatever the laws introduced lo stop wages going up, trade unionists everywhere must be driven to challenge this government. No one will allow Tories to turn back the clock to the days of mass unemployment, poverty and misery. the political leadership for this fight. Our paper is more vital WORKERS at Witton James Ltd, a GEC subsidiary on the combine's industrial estate at north Wembley, Middlesex, have now been on strike 13 weeks for better conditions and job security.

The 60 Witton James men have remained out after a last-minute pay settlement earlier this week ended strikes at three other GEC subsidiaries on the siteEEKEND than ever today. Let us therefore use the opportunity of this coming weekend for a great drive for our fund. Raise extra amounts wherever you can. Post all donations immediately November Appeal Fund 186a Claptom High Street London, SW4 7UG.

This week's settlement gave skilled workers a £3.50 rise and £3.10 for semi-skilled.

The Witton James workers, however, are worried about employment conditions and particularly about job They are refusing to return to work until management have given them some guarantees.

They say they will not be put on four-day-aweek working like they were for six months last year.

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Although Courtauld's said on takageDAVID ed in (SLL C (Union a appear in FOUR HUNDRED glassworkers in the south east have formed an action committee to fight the Pilkington glass monopoly's threat to their jobs.

The workers are employed at Pilkington's sheet glass plant at Queensborough on the Isle of Sheppey. The firm says it will close the factory in six months' time because the market can be supplied from the Pontypool (South Wales) and St Helens (Lancs) factory.

The unions claim that the monopoly has a 'moral and ethical' duty to keep the plant open. They have accused a Pilkington director of making the misleading statement that the workers were willing to accept the closure.

The bulk of the action committee consists of officials and shop stewards from the General and Municipal Workers Union. It will call on the local MP and the council to join in the campaign.

negotiations factory Thursday closure was inevita told feel progress is being made towards a solution to the problem.

Last night the factory's joint shop stewards committee met to assess the outcome of talks both at Skelmersdale and in London.

Speakers:

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CONNIE FAHEY ›w tenants' leader) :ORIN REDGRAVÉ BATTERSBY (ACTT)

ALAN THORNETT uty senior steward Motors Assembly, Cowley, Oxford)

GARY GURMEET Editor Keep Left)

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MIKE BANDA ¡entral Committee) ind tenant speakers a personal capacity)

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