from a special correspondent Some 80 maintenance engineers and motor mechanics have joined the 1l-week -old strike of 50 maintenance engineers at the Shieldhall workshops. The strike, which is official, is in protest against a rationalisation scheme which invloves seven redundancies. The AEU instructed them to take this step after efforts to obtain the seven men's reinstatement were unsuccessful. The dispute, which has been referred to the Ministry of Labour, is an example of wings of the movement fighting each other instead of being united. Too often does the Co-operative movement treat its employees in the same manner as private industry. This attitude does them no good and makes it very difficult to get the broader movement to defend the co-ops when there are under attack (e.g., the way the Selective Employment Tax operates.)
The WeekThe Week Vol. 7, No. 2, 12 January 1967
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