Phillips scabs
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LaBour is owned by Katy Industries, Indiana. They own Darwins Casting in Sheffield and Bat Simpson in Cornwall. The plant in Cornwall isn't unionised.
La Bour have said they won't take us back and they've advertised our jobs in the local paper. We've contacted the THE expected attempt to break the dispute at Phillips Rubber in Manchester came last week when scabs were brought in by management.
The strikers responded with a mass picket on -Monday 2nd. They were unable to stop the 15 scabs crossing the picket lines.
But the situation can be reversed. For too long the strike has been dominated by a few people who are given the role of speaking to labour movement meetings and organising the strike. Too many strikers have been left on the påppet ing. What isolation has leid to some demoralisation.
A major turn to the local labour movement is needed to mobilise support for the pickets. A regular weekly mass picket has to be organised. The number of strikers going to trade union and Labour Party meetings has to be increased.
The strikers should demand that the regional TGWU gives support given so far. The TGWU should start building active support on the picket line. work record and is a malingerer. In fact she has a rare blood disease.