THE fight against redundancies continues at the British Oxygen depot in Hackney. jority of workers were quite prepared to accept the loss of jobs; it was only the convenor John Walsh, and deputy convenor Micky Boulter who wanted a fight. asked for a recess for a week. meeting. Everyone was there and only one worker out of the entire plant wanted to leave his job. Meanwhile the union has told management that it won't accept compulsory redundancies. Its policy is employment, not deployment.
the beginning in fighting place of full involvement and solidarity of the workers in the plant.
work that will result from the redundancies.
militant depot in British Oxygen.
At a meeting last week, management argued that the maSo Fred Ferryman, the Transport Union group secretary, Micky Boulter, who is also branch secrelary, called a mass The whole workforce at Hackney has been involved from the job cuts. No amount negotiating, even with the best of union officials, can take the together to save the 28 jobs that has been an important factor in the refusal of the depots in Cardiff and Bristol to handle any It will be Hackney's willingness to continue the fight that will ensure that the union officials don't give in and that if and when firm support is needed, the labour movement will support | them. It is through their own independent activity and organisetion in the past that Hackney is today the strongest and most