HEADLINES the screamed the workers.
such a foolish act.
disrepute.' This the latest stage in a bitter dispute between rampworkers and Airways management.
Hundreds of scabs, of whom are MOST of trade have been cooperating with management in their attempts to smash the strongest section organised workers at Heathrow Airport.
Fi ne rampworkers, including loaders and drivers, are now in their seventh week of a lock out.
Airport regulations prevent a picket inside the perimeter Heathrow itself, so they are not even able to properly confront the so-called 'volunteers' who are doing their jobs.
ine alspute Stance management which made demands mossie to any lade union to concede. Ofly did management want 300 redundancies, they wanted lengthen working hours, change the shift system SO l that rampnational newspapers sabotage of ground vehicles at Heathrow Airport on 29 March, implying that it was the work of the striking ramp He added that 'it was not unheard of for saboteurs and provocateurs to be employed by the other side to put the trade union side in workers would have up to 30 days more per year and they demanded no less than 116 changes in working practices.
Despite efforts by the Transport General Workers Union to bend over backwards to accommodate agement's demands, che management threw out the negotiating procedures and locked out the ramp workers.
The object of this exercise is to sell off British Airways private dustry. having broken the organised strength workers.
Unfortunately many Airways believe that they are dothe management and themselves favour by carrying out organised scabbing on a scale not seen since the General Strike of 1926.
Office staff, many of Inen members of Apex and ASTMS, pilots and some austral workers have been doing ramoworkers lobs during their own time, their annual holidays, at Tales of pay higher than that of the rampworkers.
Meanwhile a secret report, with every copy individually numbered, is proposing that British Airways should be sold off, after having received a cash injection the ment of £600 million.
Under this plan ten to fifteen thousands jobs at Heathrow would be lost - in addition to work the recent Phase t cies •Phase which cost 10,000 jobs.
After seven and on dispute pay alone (£12), with constant and effective demoralisation danger of setting in Management workers responded to an appeal for them to return dividually sufficient numbers be first their locked leagues. the Mike Le Cornu, ramp steward staff that: 'If the ramp, which is one of the strongest areas, is defeated, can say goodbye to the rest constitution, negoulations unions will nothinos.' Members of and ASTMS should call on their union leaders to come down like a ton of the bricks on any of their members who are scabor bing response has been little much more than token.
first Scabs at Heathrow weeks scabbing.
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Transport union shop steward Mike Le Cor- nu said that his members would not be guilty of