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created politics. Thus we fight for working class unity scale. This unity will in the long run he decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in datin America and Asia.
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Him interested motion got get n my acidist Challenge 13 December 1979 page 2 Africa freland and Neither the are built by This means more had plant's OL TOUCC continues CONCLOS to the factory ing Union continue Airfix, Support Egan, •all-star AIRFIX, the owner of Meccano, has second thoughts about the 40-minute notice it gave to the nine hundred Meccano workers about the closure. The company has now offered them 9 days' pay in lieu At a mass meeting last Monday ins orter was cordlaly wwwn out The occupation at the Merseyside plant, which began a fortnight ago, Management had attached a few redundancy pay offer, including a demand for an end occupation; no industrial action; and for access to the and warehouse, which contain stock worth f2.5m.
Aș Dick Fitzpatrick, an Engineersteward, put it: intention is to keep the plant open, not just for 90 days but for all time.
Negotiations along these lines unions and although the company appears determined to close the plant. One idea presently being discussed by the workforce is to call on the loca council to take over the plant as a municipal workers' co-opérațive.
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