BILL SIRS can't be very fond of the steel strikers in Warrington, Lancashire, where the Steel Corporation plant faces closure.
The ISTC committee Warrington has produced a sticker calling on Sirs resign, and last Friday fifty of LEC SInKCES the union's London to demand that the national executive takes privale sector steelworkers.
"The biggest mistake was Sheerness. savs Chris Herd.
secretary ISTC's Warrington branch.
out all the stops. We want all raw materials stopped, and Certit Oxygen and carbon suppliers black deliveries. the rature et steenes, he adds, 'gave the green light for a reiurn to work in the rest demanding that Sirs tells them la come back on strike, or Massive pressure miners. The Coal Board and the media lied and told them new markets had been found for coking coal.
The nationally didn't want to fight or even rock the Tory boat let alone sink it.
votes to 4,000 against strike action. One of the lessons is that South Wales miners don't want to come out on their own - yet the Wales nationally have done nothing to involve the whole trauc union movericut un une present Hg.l.
Hard on the heels of the pit vote has come the decisions of the Steel Corporation to ballot us to see if we want to vote on the 14 per cent offer. That is, do we want to vote on losing our jobs?
No we don't.
The BSC is always money, yet they can spend £100,000 on this ballot.
This is yet another attempt to defeat us. Take the example of Edwardes" workers at British Leyland to vote in favour of losing 25,000 of their own jobs.
The steel unions should hold mass meetingsato have their union cards removed.
The Warrington strikers have been dubbed the 'Brickboys' by James anacron. the Greater Manchester chief constable, because of their activities on LIC CACE les. they have now adopted their own Chris Herd Ironatollah.
Chris Herd considers thai both steel stockholders and the private sector should be "The sector scabs are just stupid, he says. "Thousands of them will be down the road by the end of the year. To strengthen the strike, he believes that the fight should be to close all major steel users.
It we were running tne chairperson Warrington "we'd soon have won it. We hope the national strike commiltee will take the strike out of Sirs' hands. was placed on the miners' union This all contributed to the ballot result of 22,000 TUC and the TUC We won't accept anything on their saying that they've no ballot which pressurised headquarters to demand action against the private sector steelworkers CHRIS HERD, official outside union headquarters in London. By Patrick Sikorski MASS meetin of National Union of Blast furnacemen members Port Talbot decided week to oppose any settlewhich does nucl quarantee all jobs et the threatened Dant John Perrins, the NUB distric cerclay. said that there had been no discussion of the rumoured picketing of pils by sicci strikeis, Dull indicated that the matter would be taken up Wiliams. the miners' president Williams has said: 'No will cross anv officia picket line tradition. We've never done it in the past and we won't do it now.
The blastfurnace workers decision over jobs follows Port Talbot. ISTC branches meeting this week are likely to encorse asumar recomucre ation their strike committee members.
6 March 1980
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By Roger Tovey, Llanwern, NUB THE miners' vote against strike action was a great disappointment.
Port Talbot over jobs