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person of the AUEW-TASS of. fice committee at Parsons and a member of the Socialist Workers Party talked to Socialist Chal lenge on the main features of the struggle. The internal situation in Parsons is simple: modern capitalist rationalisatio is that small bosses lose out one with tbe workforce. Parsons both bosses and workers wein Drel, end hotel alpier veinstock, even though chees are beginning to appear.
DIVISIONS As a result tbe management save given union many facilities ALL THE SADIE SHIK EI couraged divisions in the work force especially berween the fice and the shop floor, which has wenkened workers' organi sation in the plant. Rodgers told me:
"At the frequent mass meetings we have always said that we being granted facilities for lobbying because it is in the interests of the management at the moment. BAHAVE MCLE WONG moving to a situation where the division of interests will become obvious.
Any in net to decles the 90 dancies in August when the day's are up will be one of these Babcocks there was a similar situation, a joint commitlee with maDagetent on it. When it came to a question of sackings they went through very smootbly... There's no future, no future for you", sing the Sex It expresses exactly what the apprentices at C.A. Parsons must have been feeling about their own futures when they heard two weeks ago that the Government had put their futures in the hands of Chopper Weinstock. But they do not feel the same despair as the punk rockers. They are fighting back - a fight which has already involved the two biggest demonstrations that Newcastle has seen since the •We're making approaches to the GEC Combine Committee because we sense there is a lot of stock's stated intention to sack 40 per cent of the workforce in the urbo-generating industry sund to hit GEI workers. has said that he would close more than factory and stewards are already saying he would close Rugby, cond thoughes to have second thoughts meeting them formally within Che next week. The TASS people ar Trafford Park with the Consmittee's position with it ether • at Larse are not happy The streamlining' of British the of. average. The multinacional invasion has meant a ruthless chopping and a united workers" boose 1 Lhe omy way the dail Led how workers at Parsons emphasise this:
PAROCHIAL at have ta to thent evien we try to fight redunCancIes on i purely parochial basis then we're fighting from a weak position. We have always projected to the ithin the plant the wider impl ations for famibes, the effec oung people an chich th closure of Parsons, Reyrolles, and Clarke Chapmans JOHN STURROCK (Report)
He Combine profitably in the area. You've got to fight roundancies on wider following our successful demos national hink we 'Il get a good response t the meeting of shop stewards and s called for 30 June and we hor something will develop our of chis meeting.
The struggle against multina ional and Government plans fo Industry increasingly raises Such plans are not blue-prints mchine ta Be objective of nationalisation coutrol. A group of TASS workwithout loss effect Rodgers says they 'Our people are discussing it Everyone recognises a limit to TERRY RODGEAS, Chairperson of the AUEWITASS shop stewardi committee at Parsons: We ahould be utilising every skilled worker whe n8s 8 contrarion to make on energy to find alleroative sourcos issues, LD HOLIESL representatives whic there's no otber destroy society but.
every scientist, the tremendous obstacles, basis for workers EIT• Jobs, Terry * WORKERS POWER found the CENTORE NOOD
protestors, including parents of AT AN ANGRY meeting last week, editor who ran a racist report of the Islington 18 trial was confronted by defendants and his own journalists. an by KATHY LOWE SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 22 June 1977 P.4
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