REFLECTING the amongst railworkers, workshop addressed Saturday.
down the rail industry of the industry.
Horwich day is your struggle tomorrow, Confarence magnificent £103.50 for the workshop action fund.
was bound to lead to job losses.
As a delegate Waterloo and Clapham branch said, If management try to impiement u al Waterloo they will meet growth Dennis Green, deputy solidarity convenor of the works committee at Horwich shunters grades conference in Brighton last the NUR guards and Conference had just passed resolutions opposing two aspects of BR's plans to run - flexible rostering and one person operation of trains. Dennis explained that a key aspect of this plan is the privatisation of the more profitable sections sophisticated and expensive foundry plants works has one of the most in Europe. Money has been poured into it over the last few years and after the closure, BR inDennis went on to explain the human cost the communities of Horwich and Shildon, They will destroy turning them into industrial wastelands', he The apprentice training centre which had 691 applications for 31 jobs last year is to be 'This industry Delegates had already been told about responded by collecting The conference showed very clearly that the fight over flexible rostering and against job losses will be part of the struggle this year to defend the railways - jobs and services.
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tend to privatise it at a later date of the workshop closures. closed along with the works. has to stand up now, because if we don't, there won't be an industry left.' he said. BR's refusal to open pay discussions. As Den- nis said. The struggle we are faced with to-
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