took part had takeover of the yards.
On August, £500,000 came ment.
controlled the stewards.
of other jobs depended on them.
held up and down the country.
The talked of strike action.
struggle spreading. 'lameduck' policy smashed.
yards, and in The work-in ended.
boon the beginning of the end.
Socialist Chailenge 9 October 1980 pavea tue way for 70,000 marched in to the work-in's funds.
Overnight UCS was at the head of a national movement against the Tory governThe occupation was not a conventional one. The workers took charge of the plant, gate, excluded the quidator, and prevented the movement of machinery. They also paid sacked workers supervision The work-in had a tremendous impact. The shipyards were at the heart of the Scottish economy, the workers were in a strategic position, and tens of thousands The shop stewards seized the chance to build a political movement to throw out the Tories. Hundreds of meetings were August demonstration united the Scottish working class behind the demand to kick out the Tories. The Scottish miners But as in the steel strike this year, the TUC did everything possible to prevent the Nevertheless of the Tories The government was forced to shell out f35m for restructuring three of the four 1972 Marathon Manufacturing took over the fourth yard Heath struggled on for another two years before the miners' strike in 1974iadministered the coup de grace. UCS had