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SPEED But the most interesting thing about the AUEW branch circular is speed with which ushed out lacking when the historic MISDUIE was lanie pace ine aucw cxecutive taled to send even one circular curino ine entire 21 weeks of the strike Clearly sigher pricing in the strikebreaking bureaucratic circles of the AUEW ian women sinking tor equal pay In response to these actions of the AUEW Executive a number of union have pressed their anger in the best way DOssIDe - • DV movinG reso lutions calling for the removal of the AUEW Executive. This they are entitled to do he union which states: The EC o memoen removed trom onrice by a vote of the membership of the union provided that such a ballot demanded by 10 per more of the branches and that not bersnip are in tavour or sucn a REMOVE Last Friday Strichley branch unanimousiv votee to in after Leyland worker.
decided to launcn a campaign to kick out the Executive.
of officials is thus being posed in a real way. All AUEW members are urced to - moDHise Ine feelino or anger aaainsis execu tive and to build this campaign to remove the strikebreakers office.
*Two weeks ago the Birmingham cast Auew snoo stewaros terly voted to organise a lobby of the Union's National Committee against the Social Contract. However wiTel moved at me Disince commee Subscribe NAME.
Workers have a bag goodies to choose from in the Nas hodge podge being cooked up by Callaghan and Murray in their dealings with Lord Watkinson of the CBI. At least that is what they are being led to believe. Phase 3 offers endless possibilities - apparently suited to everyone's taste.
It could be 'flexible'. Difballot ferentials may be restored. Or they may not. Phase 1 and 2 rises could be consolidated into basic rates. On the other hand, this might go a bit far. Whatever formula these hard-nosed negotiators come up with, one thing is clear: just like Phase 1 and 2, the third phase will AUEW mean nothing more than wage cut in the interests of the bosses.
Jones and Murray are trying also to hide this unsavoury They nave taken shopping bag of promises yet union again. Unemployment will disappear. Weaker sections of the community will after. Inflation will be under In fact, if Jones and Murray are to be believed, workers and bosses alike will rejoice at what is in store for them. nonsense! If this sales pitch cual- isn't enough in itself to put off militants from swallowing the next round of attacks, the facts Red Weekly SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: E7 per year £3.50 for six months FOREIGN: E9 per year surface mai £12 per year airmail will help to do so.
ARGUMENT: Wage restraint is essential to cutting inflation. FACT: Prices rose 15.1% between January according to latest retail price indexes. Food prices - one of the largest chunks out of the pay packet - have gone up faster, by 22.7 per cent. Healey now admits inflation will be running at 15 per cent by the end of "77, not his past 9 per cent forecast. Average earnings have risen only 12 per cent. On average working class people have had real wage cuts of £10 a week.
ARGUMENT:
Contract helps the weak and a low paid workers.
FACT: An estimated 20,000 families worse off after a f6 rise fact. because of extra tax payments out their and loss of benefits. majority of low paid workers did not receive the full £6 possible under Phase 1. In Phase looked 2, those earning less than £50 got a maximum of only £2.50 a week. In April 1976, 10 per cent of male and 75 per cent of women manual workers earned less than £44 a week.
What ARGUMENT: In return for wage restraint, women will get Cula bay FACT: Two thirds of women workers have low paid jobs not comparable to men's jobs. Of the remaining one third covered by the Act, 10 percent still get nowhere near equal pay. ARGUMENT:
Contract will tackle ployment.
FACT: Unemployment has increased under Labour and is expected to stay at over a million on the dole till the 1980s. There are 140,000 school leavers without jobs.
ARGUMENT:
Contract will care for the old, homeless and the ill.
FACT: Labour has cut £80m programme. It has halved projects for residential homes for old people, children and the 76 and 177, The Social found themselves