women strikers at Salford Electrical Instruments in Heywood. near Manchester, occupied their factory.
Once inside they padlocked all the gates and took over the switchboard to stop all incoming and outgoing calls.
The next day another 100 wo men strikers manned the picket lines.
NAME.... The women say they are staying in until their demands for equal pay are granted.
The response of the male workers to the women's action was however deplorable, When the male seats arrived for work the next day and found the gates locked they broke in through the back to ger into work.
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presents itself for the union to take up a real fight on behalf of women workers. Instead it has stood idly strike breaking Liverpool The determined fight of 150 worsen workers at the Wingrore & Rogers factory in Liverpool is still going on.
The strike begun in late June afler management refused to puy a honus that they had been waiting for for over a year. Nor did the women pee their promised threshold payment.
Although at the time of writing the occupation and counter-scabbing has been going on for two days, the should return Again an excellent opportunity by whilst its male members carry on with the capitalist press in trying to get the press shop workers back William Cleasey, convenor at the Ford's Basildon Tractor plant, has added his twopennorth by saying that the men .. to avoid needless local militants who are now re-forming an East London Anti-Fascist Group.
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Saloun Bar Alfred Quest, a 64-year-old Jamaican hospital worker and NUPE member, was one of those who supported a picket last Friday outside the Railway Tavern in Mile End, where the landlord's attitude is that, "I don't serve black people". Action against this racist outrage has brought together a number of