is Laurence Scott dif ferent?
Dennis Barry says: 'It's true people have generally accepted redundancy laid down and refused to fight. But now there's nowhere to run. Once you are out of the gates you are now virtually permanently unemployed. The majority of people at Scotts realised that even for the small of money that alloulll they got for picketing duty is fi7, that they would only be getting £19.50 week for something that could be for the rest of their lives.' Joan Taylor adas. Dennis Barry (1st left, back row), 'Now there's nowhere to run. 'Women workers wouldn't get a job in Manchester at the moment. Nobodi could Neither men nor wollell Apprentice Jed McNeill at the moment at college, puts his view: 'My future is very rosy isn't it? •ime around wild luc onl ly break to money to m your dole fighting to save my jobs and 650 others.
Trick But didn't the workers fall for the redundancy money trick. It was a problem at the beginning as Dennis Barry points Laurence Sc out: 'Originally it was block on the struggle. Ac cording to the procedure workers with 2 vears wer guaranteed redundanc monev but the ones wit less were insecure. W would have got into tes Lasco. But the workers had ar unlikely ally on the ques tion of redundancies. Arthur Snipe!
Mike Cordingley, AUEW/TASS steward ex plains: 'Snipe began saying that mone we fought. fev workers that were reall concerned left and we fe better off without them.
t: Lessons no point in leaving the occupation une date of 10 July, because by that time we would have
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