Plessey action MORE than 12,000 Plessey workers took part in a one-hour stoppage last Friday 5 March in sup

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The support strike followed the victory scored by the occupying workforce in defeating a court order requiring them to leave the factory. This was followed on Monday by a national demonstration outside Plessey's LonMilitant action of this kind is what has led to the court victory. The judge who withdrew the court order - Lord Kincraig -was the same who issued it in the first place! The company is appealing against the judgement Although the verdict was an important victory, Peter Huntingford speaks out the investigation occupation at the company's the judge used the occasion to demand changes in the law of the kind being proposed in Tebbit's Bill. political courts! As much TOT *nonvenor George Wilson COnpoints out, the battle wil be won through the dustrial struggle, relying on any favours big money from the electronics revolution - and denationalisation. million in profits. Yet it is Last vear Indee £100 one of 25 companies which have been urging Thatcher reflate the Its actions give the lie inat unemployment is needed for vival. For lesseye k. economic surment and their unemployment a the challenge is because tion.

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