closure of whole sections of industry due to bankruptcy. This process will escalate through consumer goods industries, where demand is falling due to the drop in the real value of wages caused by inflation, and hit heavy industry (engineering, machine tools) around the spring of next year.
On Merseyiide itself Jobs have disappeared at several furniture making factories and the 1800strong workforce at Hygena, on the same industrial estate as IPD, is already on a 3-day week.
It is this situation which determines that trade union militancy by itself will not he enough to stop this process but that a nationally coordinated fight against unemployment becomes necessary. Because of this IPD becomes a touchstone.
Any national fight against untemployment would be tremendously strengthened if the Labour Government lends its support to that strug gle. The best way this can he done is for Labour to nationalise and place under workere control any firm declaring redundancies. The fight for workers control cannot be an optional evin talecome nations. Workers" control PEENI CIN to shady golap-on betwees Loo Josepli's contraction outfit, Boris.
to allow the borough's main buildings department, the Southwark depurtment the SCO is run by four recommended the transfer and it CWD records.
leader, tefused all consultation the unions an 7000 NALGO AND NUPE worken pro stopped work last week in response don's Labour-controlled Southwark Council and exTory minister Keith fined their object The Council invoked an emergency regulation, probably illegilly.
Construction Organisation to 'absorb" the smaller Capital Works Department. on any of the issues rassed!
Although technically a borough Bovis managers and Boris will receive 1.85% of CI0 million worth of SCO contracts. It was a Bovis report that was Bovis men who took away all the John O'Grady, Labour council so after the shotg Jafortunatey, the stand tale y the NUPE aNd NALCO bre sectetaries at a shet man met te wat totally inadequate. They coo as to the inam of consultation and job security for those directly involved. And they recommended referring the whole business to arbitration by the Greater London Whitley Council with no guarantees from the employers Eventually, However, there was • guarantee given on job promotion and security but the only satisfied party is Boyis Construction Lid. who have effectively got away with people the whole manoeuvre IPD The unions should have demanded to inspect the books of the soalled Works Departments and fo WORKERS WIN al 130