Kigass workers in SC 243.
very few of us have been on strike.
management without the WINCES to at least 35p ty.
that they could double the rate.
Hosiery Mills Will N SHORNE Mansfield I'M A MEMBER of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear workers and many of my co-workers saw several similarities between our situation and your report on the Like the Kigass women we also are very low paid. Our take home pay ranges from 224 to f43 for a 40 hour week and like the women But this does not mean that women do not fight back even when they are in a union like the NUKW which gives us no leadership.
This was illustrated last week when the button sewers demanded a higher piece rate for new work than that imposed by the consent of the The union gave no support to the women and on their own initiative they completely blacked the work from going or leaving any sections of the shopfloor and retused all negotiations with the management until the rate had been increased from 23p per dozen Because the union still refused to back the women and organise them they only got 32p.
To us. this struggle shows several things: that women will fight not just the bosses but also the union bureaucracy, and that the bosses didn't just give in because of generosi The bosses make such enormous profits Had the women's militant action been allowed to spread around it would have brought the fac cine 101211201810100 2 024101 You can be sure that women in Mansfield the against the bosses like the Kigass workers!
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National UK Palestine Saturday 15 May