Dear Sister, Many thanks for your letter and data reeeived Tuesday of this week, We would like to thank you for distributing our collection sheets for us, as you are aware we can do with all the financial support we can get. We have been out since the 16th April fighting for Union recognition, The outcome at the present moment is we have achieved union recognition, but the terms offered'to us by the management for the return to work are unacceptable, This is a rough copy of the proposals sent to us this morning after we met management yesterday. 1. Severance pay of £1 per week for every week you have worked there*, 2, Short time working 16 hours only for union members and not the black legs inside. 3. If we return on short Lime we sign to say we agree to stay six months, if in that time three or more of us leave, the rest of the Union members will be made redundant. . Subject to the staff's approval inside! As you can fully understand, we could not accept these proposals. Our negotiations are with the management not with the workers. Yours fraternally, Mrs. F. Gay (Treasurer) E.T.U. dispute Electronics Laboratories, Ramsgate, Kent.
*There are probably implications of this which are not made clear in this
letter.
_— At the General Committee meeting of the National Joint Action Campaign for Women's Equal Rights on July 5, £10 was voted to support these women. Also, F, Blake, Sec-Treas. was appointed to see the. etrikers and offer to give them NJACWER's assistance in their dispute, iis SHEE