AFTER the mass picket ADWEST factory September, 30 strikers went to Transport House to demand that their 19-week-old dispute be made official.
case to Rod Todd, Secretary, and Fred Howell, national officer for power and engineering said he'd known nothing about the dispute (after 19 weeks!).
On Monday • evenine Moss Evans finally fored the strikers... a half hour meeting with him in outside the on Monday and supporters During their stay, the strikers put their Deputy General who Blackpool September! This was rethen insisted that non file in the workplaces and branches As part of this pro. cess, we have had to op.
victimisation of union ac. tivists by our own Every year the annual conference passes many • a legacy of Broad Left influence but unless pressure brought to bear • on ThE National Executive Com mittee to do something about them, they just get consigned the chives Forgot For example, in 1979 conference passed for cam paign for workplace nurserie:
NEC's will. But subsequently the NEC foonot about the resolu To control the leader. ship more effectively, we are fighting to make the union structures more democratic Red Collar is in favour of the election of union to so the and officials Whether the threat to jobs originates in a crisis in a specific industry or in the introduction of now technology, the answa has to be a campaign for a shorter working wook. standard living members, it is support struggles and decampaigning against al cuts.
those struggles we need defend trade rights which are serious ly threatened by the Employment Act; the De fend Our Unions Code of Practice is part of Rec Collar's prooramme We also have to argue against import controls and the other proposals the which the union ted.
For further •information about meetings, local. ac tivities etc. please contact Red Collar, c/o 9 Countes
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ADWEST - police Transport House