Does Sacking Equal Backing?

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from a North West Reader Accodring to Vickers bosses it appears that sacking workers is Backing Britain, When 200 members of the AEU,“ho work on the Polaris submarine Repulse, were ° informed that 60 of them were redundant they promptly banned overtime, Notices were served on the first 20 men on January 7th and the workers rejected a plan by the company to cut down the number of dismissals by introducing an extra shi: '., rightly being very suspicious of this proposal. A spokesman for Vickers, the men's employers then issued a statement which said: "Their attitude is hardly one of backing Britain." This incident confirms the growing feeling among active trade unionists that the "I'm backing Britairi' campaign is just a device to whip up antitrade union feeling,