Heathrow airport, Vauxhall, Ford and Leyland, shop steward Betty Humphries told a Hammersmith Working Women's Charter Campaign meeting last week that a driver had reported seeing unmarked crates arriving at Heathrow airport from America for delivery to Levland. When you hear this sort of thing you begin to wonder. We've been told that Levland are blacking: but when you hear this...' Trico management has dropped its attempt, al une moment to take ine strike to an ecual pay tribunal. The women, under the direction oj ine execurve oj ine Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, had already decided to boycott any Tribunal. The strike committee's bulletin for 15 July pointed out how employers are exploiting every loophole in the Equal Pay Act to avoid paying -and how four out of every five applications to the Tribunal have so far failed.
Comore ne olowing iwo cases ana spot the difference (the strike committee are offering no prizes Jor winner):
1. A woman whose job it was to check glasses on a conveyor belt claimed equal pay with a man who also checked glasses on a conveyor belt. No, said the Tribunal, you can't have equal pay: the man does the first inspection and you are just a 're-inspector' — therefore his iob is more responsible and should paid more.
2. A woman whose job it was to check shoes in a shoe factory claimed equal pay win a man who also checked shoes. fo said the Tribunal, you can't have equal pay; you only do the first inspection, while he has the responsibility of checking the shoes before they finally go to the customer.
Heads they WIT.
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