Tion of f10 a week More than 4,000 production workers at Massey Ferguson's three Coventry Tractor Plants are out on unofficial strike in pursuit of a 'substantial' pay increase in the reg ers have been out for three weeks, and since Tuesday 13 May have been in occupation at the Banner Lane assembly plant.
The workers have also taken up the shop stewards' call for flying pickets to go out to hotels where staff have been scabbing on the strike. have been approached, and the Post House Hotel in Coventry successtully stopped Attitudes have*hardened since the discovery of a managment document indicating the possibility of a month-long strike in May 1975, which was taken into account in estimating production targets for the year. Accusations of theft against the picket have also been made by managing director Rolan Jennings withdrawn, but not before they were plastered all over the front of the local rag, the Coventry Evening Telegraph. Not surprisingly the strikers have adopted the attitude of not talking to anyone from the press.
Dr Berry Beaumont reads out the occupiers' demands to BMA secretary Dr Stevenson The British Medical Association's headquarter's in Tavistock Square London had its first-ever occupation last week. A group of doctors and medical students staged a sit-in at the BMA insisting that Dr Derek Stevenson, the BMA secretary, organise action by the BMA in opposition to the James White Abortion (Amendment) Bill. Cop ies of the BMA'S confidential evidence to the Commons Select Committee have since Dr Berry Beaumont, a member of the IMG and a leader of the sit-in, said: "We regard this as just the begining of a campaign which we must wage amongst doctors against this disastrous Bill". Dr George Meridith, another of the occupiers said the James White Bill 'will simply assure the success of abuses'.
Even the staid and ultra-conservative BMA in its evidence to the Select Comm ittee, according to another IMG member, Dr Dominic Costa, had been forced to 'criticise almost every clause in the Bill. • Management have offered about E6 across the board. The strikHotels in Leamington av • these have since been