GIVE 85 THE CURE MALI ulready negotiated them continue to break out across the country.
tically, but must he negotiated month-by-month.
Workers at the Coventry enginecring firm of Wickman have done significantly better. They returned to work after the management conceded the £1.20 now due, and agreed to grunt further rises automatically until the end of August, when the deal will be reviewed BREAKTHROUGH A significant breakthrough bas come at the Coventry Jaguar works, where manngement had been insisting on the official Brilish Leyland policy that no threshold payouts were to be negotiated. Workers pointed to a management promise, made as part of choi Phase 3 settlement, that applications for thruseold rises would be sympathetically.conSTRUGGLES to win threshold pay rises for those workers who have not Last week another important group took a step towards winning this bare minimum of protection from Inflation, when the Building and Civil Engineering Joint Board agreed on an initial £1.20 rise for 1 million building workers. However further rises will not be forthcoming automa sidered. Faood with the prospect of industrial actioo, management sympachy began to low, and the rise has now been conceded On Tynoside, the Swan Hunter shipyards face industrial netion as u result ot munagement's relusal to meet the de mands of 5000 unskilled workers far thresholi cash. The dispute could rapidly spread to the entire workforos, none of whom have threshold protection, Workers ar Pleasy Telecommunica tians in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, have occupied the factory in their fight for a threshold agreement. Met Read,-ASTMS beanch socalary at the factory and a merher of the occupagan commiesee told Red Weekly about their light: continued on p.8