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Singer's boss, Joe Flavin, Africa ESTABLISHED in 1882, with 2.5 million square feet of space, Singers, Clydebank, is the world's largest and oldest operating factory. Twenty-five years ago it employed 16,000 people, and exporting 80 per cent of its output to Today there are become 3000 workers, 1200 of them women.
In the past five years, Clydebank than half of Unemployment has increased by 45 per cent and one the Today the 3000 workers of Singers redundancies. Tories flew in from New York and informed trade-union leaders that the plant would be shut down next June. It is the only factory of 28 around the world which Singers plan to close.
he workers at singers are angr stunned by the officials are saying that Singers will Ine biggest campaign for Scots jobs since the UCS crisis seven All nine unions the backed by the STUC and TUC, are expected to unite and put the heat on Tory government. The Scottish Secretary, George Younger, has already made it clear that the will not intervene to save the future children still at school?' | to Scottish workers They voted Labour in the last unlike mans England. Scotland remains a labour stronghold and the Tories know this Many workers detect in the attitude of Union Singers a multinational's against a part of the world where there are strong traditions of trade-unionism John McFadyen, plant, Singer's stewards, experienced death before in a human being. Now I think I am seeing it in a Tory town. At a meeting of shop-stewards last Monday it was agreed to fight the In reality Singers could become jobs. This hardly comes as a surprise ! the focus of anti-Tory resistance in 'And what's going to be for two Fitter Benny McAteer workers in the rest revenge Urgency ot said: have people in this Scotland if the mass of workers are involved in the struggle and a decision is taken to occupy the plant. But this occupation needs, of necessity, to be co-ordinated through the STUC with of Scottish industry and a national campaign planned to force the Tories to nationalise Singers.
Singers is a major test for the British labour movement. The fact it is situated in Clydebank imparts additional urgency. More than 6000 La working community of 30.000 will be out of work by next summer. For the Tories at Blackpool didn't mean very much.
Scottish workers it means everything.