HORWICH LOCO WORKS fought off a threat by British Rail management to close the works down, but now they again find that their future is in doubt.
redundancies it required, so compulsaries are now more than likely.
Committee is determined to resist this threat. But the problems go even deeper than this.
Dennis Green, who convenes the Action Commuce, explameo me stuation:
They don't guarantee us regular work. Despite the Lnal Horwich works has some of the most advanced machinery available it is all underutilised.
Each order that we do is extra work that some otner loco works comen do. We don't have our Own regIon to our own jobs. We all feel that works is in doubt, despite what BR are prepared to say They don't seem to lave made up their mind: what to do. n the last 1 months we've had three different production managers. The one we Socialist Challenge 3 December 1982 BR has failed to get the scale of voluntarv The Horwich Action have now is only a temmanager, which doesn't COIL We are not that we should be given work while other works go to the wall. That would be divisive, although there are some plants that take that approach. Our demands are for increased investment in rall as a whole, and we call for the other measures that are necessary to make this possible?
Horwich Loco works Horwich workers successfully demonstrating against the is increasing investment in building more trains. carriages and track, BriAS