All ten trade unions at Picasey level. agroc to soon a pot cm cora threshold agreements at the beginning of 1974, and to take joint action in pursuit of this. Pleasey insisted on an agree. ment giving 40p for every 156 rise in the Retail Price Index above 75, up to a limit of 4%, which would not be re-negotiable, "All the trade unions, except APEX whicle accepted the original offer, stuck out for an open-ended, re-negotinble threshold agreement, with greater increases for every rise in the Price The mine trade unions, representeng white-collur, skilled and hourly-paid workers, have organised joint action. On Tharsday 80 warchouse workers came out on strike, and on Friday the management responded by laying off the remaining 4,000 workers.
advised their members to turn up for work on Monday as normal. About 3,500 turned up, and die occupation begun, with continual shifts of 500 workers around the clock.
Plesey workers at Poole. Towcuster. and Tichfield ace pushing similar claims. However workers at the Liverpool factory have just agrood to the company's terma. National support for our action is therefore urgeatly needed."
The difficuiry with the present disputer is that they are localized and frag mcated. If is a revealing comment on the trade union 'leaders" that, with low wooppons, toey have made lo eifort to manch a coordinated struggle for such an clementary and nocessary demand.
working in the weeks ahead to give as much unity to the strueele as possible: by warine a campain insule the unions demanding that the bureagcrars act, by building united action by all unions in the workplace, and by organising joint mectings and conferences of workers' representitives on the local and recional