Officials from the TGWU, Amicus and the GMB are backing the Jaguar car company rather than their own members in a pay dispute!
Workers at Halewood in Merseyside, Castle Bromwich in Birmingham and Browns Lane and Whitley in Coventry have been offered a 4% pay rise, balanced against changes in working practices and 'flexibility' - for which read workers bending over backwards to make money for their employers.
This deal was rejected by 2,101 votes (53%) to 1,878 (47%) on Friday, but trade union officials are refusing to accept this verdict.
After meetings on Monday, a spokesman for the T&G said: "The negotiators still felt the company's offer was one they could recommend. So further and more detailed consultations will take place with shop stewards in the plants."
This is yet another betrayal by trade union leadership, and workers must refuse to back down in the fight for decent wages and working conditions. All of us have to organise democratically in our workplaces and neighbourhoods to combat the capitalist class, because elected 'representatives' are never going to do it for us.
This deal was rejected by 2,101 votes (53%) to 1,878 (47%) on Friday, but trade union officials are refusing to accept this verdict.
After meetings on Monday, a spokesman for the T&G said: "The negotiators still felt the company's offer was one they could recommend. So further and more detailed consultations will take place with shop stewards in the plants."
This is yet another betrayal by trade union leadership, and workers must refuse to back down in the fight for decent wages and working conditions. All of us have to organise democratically in our workplaces and neighbourhoods to combat the capitalist class, because elected 'representatives' are never going to do it for us.
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Nonsense
15.11.2006 18:04
No one goes on strike on a 53:47 vote. At least 55% is needed.
In this case if 112 people out of 4000 changed their mind the mandate would disappear.
The 2101 who voted to strike understood this.
T U Member
M-AJ-O-R-I-T-Y
15.11.2006 19:50
For years the TU movement thought that it would be sound when a labour government got in but instead it just got shafted.
I just wish my union put as much effort into improving terms and condition as it did into sending me crappy magazines with labour sichophants on the front and applications for insurance and credit cards
Union leaders have forgot their guiding principle that they are elected through a democratic process to represent the wishes of their members. The momen they moved away from this they became as bad as the labour party itself
If the membership decide by majorty decision to strike then that is exactly what the union should support
One member one vote
Still nonsense
16.11.2006 10:50
Anon
"The workers (on strike), split down the middle, will ... What? ... succeed.
Succeed where the united workers merely avoided defeat?
The 2101 who voted to strike understood.
T U Member
55%??? Whatever happened to...
17.11.2006 09:50
Big Bob Haystack
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http://www.iww.org.uk
Surprised?
17.11.2006 16:11
Neon black do you know where i could get the latest on this story?
cheers
jack london