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Photo: GM COOKSON (Socialist Challenge' Tuesday, 21 July.

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their jobs. occupy union HQ OVER 150 workers from cupied the Engineering Union's head office last They were protesting at the scandalous behaviour of A mass meeting of the workers the previous week had voted overwhelmingly to reject the agreement cooked up by the union leadership and the company's boss, Arthur Now the executive is sending Ken Cure to try once again to persuade the workers to accept the agreement at a mass meeting on Thursday 23 July - a meeting called over the heads of the elected strike committee.

When union general secretary John Boyd and president Terry Duffy were asked by Laurence Scott workers sitting in at the head office what the executive position would be if the mass meeting yet again rejected the agreement, Boyd answered: 'Yes, we would withdraw of.

Boyd and Duffy also informed the police that they have "complete freedom' to clear the building.

The labour movement has to respond immediately to this new threat to the Laurence Scott workers fighting for See p$ for a report of the events leading up to the picketing of the AUEW executive and the subsequent sit-in at the union HQ Laurence Scott OC-