IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

DEVELOP WORKERS' PLAN

Red Weekly No. 128, 4 December 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 324 words

The scan: rw-no128-dec-4-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

Registered with the Post Office as a newspaper. Published by Relgocrest for Red Weekly, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. (01-837 6954) In 1974 the EEPTU refused to implement even an overtime ban - agreed by the other 18 member unions of the ConThroughout the 1960s the EEPTU 80 per cent.

despite the fact that Unchanged The record has continued unchanged. • An electric car which has its own internal generator and can reduce fuel costs by 50 percent and pollution by • A road-rail transport system whici could overcome traffic congestion and woud use mis ven ce • Production of retarder break fittings - which could have prevented tragedies like the recent Yorkshire coach crash. • Requests to the Socialist Medical Association to draw up a shopping list of new equipment needed for the NHS These are just a few of the ideas that stewards in the Lucas Aerospace combine have been working on in their bid estimated at 7,000 for 1975 alone. They were revealed over 10,000. The unions have no illuov mike cooey, me former ores cen of AUEW(TASS), at a Birmingham En gineering Voice meeting on 27 NovemThe preparation of an alternative trade union plan for production has been the workers' response to Lucas statements that there is no demand for their present products. The plans are based on the current capacity and tooling of Lucas plants, and were submitted by local union representatives following requests from a delegation of Lucas stewards who visited Tony Benn when he was still Industry Secretary.

Alongside their alternative plan for production, Lucas stewards have been building a combine committee inside Lucas Aerospace which has links with the company's sites in Europe and else where, and have produced their own newspaper with a current circulation of sions that Lucas will implement their socially useful plant, and see the development of strong combine organisation as vital in preparing for a struggle over thIs ISsue

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