Michelin threat
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-23Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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A FEW months ago, Socialist Organiser reported on the redundancies being pushed through by Michelin in Stoke.
As part of the rationalisation plan, the company has been try: to impose continental shift working at the plant. Workers have resisted by calling a series of one day strikes.
Now, in a shock Edwardesstyle announcement, Michelin have threatened not to reopen the plant on July 11 after the annual potters' holidays if thé strikes are not called off.
Michelin employs 6000 workers at the Stoke plant, and hundreds more jobs in the area are deppendent on it. The blackmailing tactics must be resisted by occupation and whatever else is needed io protect these jobs.
Stop the cuss within its ranks solutions to the problems it faces.
Hopefully delegates will remember Weighell's attacks on the Militant tendency in the NUR, accusing them of dividing the union, and his attempts to have leading members of the Broad Left (most of them not Militant supporters) expelled.
Way Sid Weighell was well known for his advocacy of incomes policy, and a resolution on this seeks to keep the NUR that way: *'This AGM reiterates its support for a fully planned economy