U The 24 hour picket of the Manchester will be strengthened. forts are being made to ensure Snipe, their employer. is unable to remove any of the 1 Clilallll. worth of motors.
The picket of Mining Supplies after snatched a small number of motors from the Manchester factory. the flying pickets met with some success. Les weit turned initially in Doncaster and then further afield in Derbyshire pledged goods from the factory.
To back up the strikers IN HERE BOY! on picket as well as Right to Work NOT ON US campaigners, Challenge and Revolution supporters. support played a vital role in sustaining the picket it THE LAURENCE Scott strikers ended the five weeks long flying picket of their parent company Mining Supplies of Doncaster just before Christmas. Despite this step back the strikers who've now been fighting nine months are determined to fight on.
factor Ef by £2¾m launched Snipe's flying scabs and miners to black hne were and Although this for their jobs for was not enough to counter the campaign being waged leaders, Boyd to stop the picket being etfective.
They were terrified of not only of the possibility or lying picke becoming effective ColOnie law, as an injunction was pursued by employers Act picketing of the Doncaster works. They were aiming to isolate the picket.
Initial backing by the transport and engineering Cure, the member and Alex Barry, union's district became scab.
put and Duff Laclic but the the to stop elsewhere.
Charles the picket. not enough.
On Friday 8 January at 8 am a mass picket of all the Laurence Scott strikers AUEW executive general secretary, that the dispute, now in its ninth month, is finished.
Manchester for the picket ineffective Snipe was able to organise with local union officials under pressure from Boyd and Duffy for drivers to At the same time the engineering union leaders pressure mers president Joe Gormley, to the NUM areas advising that they lift blacking ac The final blow came with the injunction under the Employment Act. The union's legal facilities were withdrawn from the strike. Support was sought trom Labour Michael Meacher issued a statement of support for But that was council confed judge's legislate Dracucal contining it to tactory ed.
four hour judge asked: Well this Mr terests.
this situation thi felt they MPs and fight the new year DILLeT Laurence bene Fryer Romiley, Cheshire The court hearing for the injunction underlined dangerou Employment Act is. The was to the most for the strikers should be. For him that was the one that least harmed the employer solely the directly concernTowards the end of the hearing the I who's Snipe then?' revealing an expected contempt for the strikers' in'Ine nearing adjourned till March. In strikers should consolidate the dispute back the fight sin the reopen the labour movement for solidarity in The Manchester North District of the engineering then throughout the months of Now trade unionists should give support the Scott strikers. donatel messages of support to G Roundcroft.
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will take place outside the Manchester factory to refute the statement by Ken