IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Talbot stewards back Polish workers

Socialist Challenge No. 185, 19 February 1981 · pp. 6-7 of the scan · 261 words

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by the TGWU shop or Poland and the Tories' Employment Act.

How caught by the Tory Employment Act:

tion of liabilitv on at least six counts.

dispute. They also had political objectives.

Socialist Challenge BELOW we publish part of a leaflet produced stewards at Linwood the Polish strikers would have been What would have been the position of the Polish shipbuilding workers who were on strike in Gdansk and other parts of Poland if they had been subject to the Tory law of industrial relations, including the new Employment Act, or to the Tory government's draft code on picketing? They would have placed themselves in a posi1. It could be argued that they were not acting in contemplation of furtherance of a trade 2. Some of the workers broke their individual contracts of employment by striking without 19 February 1981 Page 6 proper notice.

which they work.

4. Workers have been peacefully persuading others to abstain trom themselves work.

dary action, section 17 of the Employment Act.

gates in excessive numbers to control the trance and for the purpose of persuasion. draft Tory code states that, as a general rule picketing will be limited to six and 'frequently a smaller number will be sufficient.

The T&GWU Linwood workers who struggle for unions free from state control. 3. Some of them occupied the premises in communicated information or work at places other than where they 5. Some of the workers engaged in seconnot protected under provisions of 6. Workers on strike asembled at shipyard enThe support all

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