IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Steel women strike out

· Socialist Challenge No. 141, 3 April 1980 · p. 4 of the scan · 336 words

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page 4 of the scan

delegates who spoke said that the most important thing we have to reject is job loss.

Tragedies They see jobs in Wales as the first to with theirs following close this meeting they voted to AT.

JESUUCI there should be no return to the that work until the job issue is sorter out. FIVE women of steel from Stocksbridge, for their wage claim and their jobs.

time in the morning.

"They don't ask questions nevre mst there We've had a vast response really. We're trying to show that women will do what men will We decided that women.

separately the men because the men weren't Jetting us nav our full DarL So we got our own picket office; I've got a room with a telephone and a typewriter. I Because cany somebody in to type Pickets We got the list of picket who had been involved sinc the strike start. We took the names off and started a list of our own. We Yorkshire, joined the picket of BL in Cowley last week. Later they spoke of how, as women, they were involved in fighting Explained ENID: 'We have 60 women on our picket list in Stocksbridge. I can call on them any time I want and just ask them to be at the Welfare Hall at a certain started with 18 names and Then Wev one after another, saying they wanted to go picketing. not in steel.

'What I've usually been doing during the strike is to gc to work in the morning, then I go down to the Labo our Hall and • VU the Dickering else I can do to keep interested, to make me fee part of the struggle and not isolated back at home.

anored coming ey Cooking Summing up, JACKIE said that the attitudes of some of the men on strike had changed during the dispute:

'The men aren't saying sandwiches They're Them. wille we ve been cowi at Cowley, it's the men who been doing all cooking

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