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This was to save a whole community.
When the joined by with the Tories.' of steelworks Moors, Ebbw Vale, recession internationally. other German engaged in British counter(fellow workers.
I by winter, would always hesitate to embark on! strike be avoided they should be.
Sirs added to this regal deference by union's conference floor, since the ISTC executive.
'WE'RE GOING to be the Jarrow of the 1980s.
Frank Smythe, a steel roller from Corby, described the prospects of the closure of the town's steel works.
Frank was one of the hundred people who marched from Corby to London last as demonstrating against the closures, they were marching In addition to the 7,500 steel jobs st stake, thousands of others in the town are dependent on the industry. As Frank said: 'Corby was built on steel, and that's all that's there.' lobby of Parliament. But convenor Mick Skelton did not hold out much hope from the lobby.
•Now the Tories are in power,' he said, 'the response from the government will be nil. Our only hope is to take a lesson from the miners in "74.
Corby is only the latest in a long line of closures.
In the last 18 months of the Labour government more than 18,000 steel jobs were axed, with the closure Clyde, Hartlepool, East Selton, and Bilston.
Nor is the British steel industry an isolated case.
Technological advance combined have meant a massive shake-out of jobs European countries steelworkers have launched a militant counter-offensive.
steel- workers took national strike action over their claim for a 35-hour week to save jobs. Workers at Longwy in the Lorraine region pitch battles to save their community.
But the difference between these Longwy workers arrived in Paris they were parls are outy oo youie The Corby workers at best a few hundred. predictions of (wo million unemployed this Little can be expected from the genera secretary of the iron and Steel Trades Confederation, recent calls for all-out national strike action to save jobs at Bilstch by saying: 'I this year! His Highness had little to worry constitution stipulates that It will be up to the shop stewards organisation to turn the tide.
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