NO STEEL THE latest offer by steel boss Sir Charles Villiers to the unions is an insult. Backed by the Tories he is refusing to put any more cash on the table. His 8 per cent offer is, as Len Murray said, 'festooned like a Xmas Tree conditions. demanding that jobs are sold for wages.
If ever proof was needed that co-operation with the bosses doesn't pay, me steel suike nas provided I. Union leader Bill Sirs has agreed to compromise on pay, productivity time and time again. The Tories see this TaS weakness and Villiers when he says that no extra FLYING pickets discussing the steel strike with a lorry driver in Rotherham, Yorks.
cash in available.
been organised Sheffield and Wales.
Villiers The stakes to curb effective (ie. picketing. jobs and sign of SOUTHALL SATURDAY success.
The only way to win this strike is to be as ruthless as Villiers and the Tories. Flying pickets have already in Scotland, are high in this dispute. The steelworkers are not only taking on BSC management but the Tory government itself. Already the police have been brought in to try secondary)
Steelworkers are saying that their all win. living standards are more important than the bosses' profits. Their stand is one that every trade unionist can identify with. Solidarity is the key to SUPPORT LOCAL ACTIVITIES ch It is not only steelworkers' pay that is at issue; many steelworkers will end up on the scrap heap unless they can establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
Thatcher thinks she can teach the trade unions a lesson by smashing the steelworkers. The British labour movement can turn ine tables and strike a massive blow against the Tories by giving the steelworkers the solidarity they deserve. If they win we ORGANISE TO WIN: * Make the strike solid - strike committees in every area should be 19 JAN set up with representatives many unions as action. Wives of strikers should be contacted and involved struggle. media should be countered with Ine demana tor ine rignt or backed by * Solidarity key. movement of steel, make the strike solid in the steel industry, get the craft unions out, close private steel refuse to touch steel. meeung in your workplace to raise money for the steel strikers. * For international solidarity from STEEL strikers in Motherwell on a 1,000-strong march on Monday -OTECS possible taking the Hostile reporting in the reply action on jobs pickets BEAS Stop the campaigning that day.
get dockers and railways to Organise a out of office. European and American steel unions in boycotting British industry.
* The TUC must lead the fight - not only wages but jobs are at stake. The TUC has called for Wales on January; the TUC should be giving fulles! support and •UU and COWA •INE country for national strike action on * This Tory government has shown what it intends to do to the British labour movement. The only way It's going to be stopped is by forcing it
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