THREA

The Newsletter, vol. 9 no. 397, 29 May 1965 · scan page 4

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THE management of thuk gineering Company, Dunc terminate the employment ot This was the management's answer to the 110 welders who work in the yard and who had been on strike for two weeks over a wage dispute.

An ultimatum was issued-either the strikers returned to work by the beginning of this week or the yard would close. Faced with this situation the welders returned to work on Monday, May 24.

There has been discontent over wages at the Caledon yard for some months. March the platers called a strike in support of a wages claim.

Soon after this strike began the welders were suspended. A settlement was reached with the platers two weeks ago on the basis of graded increases, but the welders refused to resume work until certain modifications to their own wages structure had been made.

Like several shipyards on the lower reaches of the Clyde, the Caledon yard had previously negotiated an agreement with the unions to grant certain wage increases on condition that there were no labour disputes for two years. This agreement expires next February.

THREATENING

Since the unions were party to the agreement the strikers have not been give official recognition by the Boilermakers' Society, even though the Scottish delegate has said that the management were largely to blame and that the union have been trying for some time to reach an agreement without success.

In a statement issued to the shipyard workers threatening the closure of the yard, the