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...Militant Wildcats. The sharp rise in prices is exceeded only by wage demands unprecedented in scale, and by the militancy with which they are sought. Basic wage rates rose a steep 9.9% in the seven months from January to July, compared with 5.4% for all of 1969. By one estimate, there has been a daily average of ten work stoppages so far this year among the companies that supply parts to Britain's auto industry. Now a four-week wildcat strike by 5,000 metalworkers at GKN Sankey Ltd., a major manufacturer of car parts, has halted automakers...
...found in fighting alliances with the large numbers of black and white working people who are exploited every day by men like David Rockefeller. And it is these people who are already fighting back: witness thereactions of black people in the ghettos to unemployment, or the startling increase in wildcat strikes over the past few years. The role of students must be to ally with these working people in fighting against the system which causes wars like Vietnam abroad and exploitation at home...
Harold Understands. One reason for the continuing trade problems has been the failure of past governments to curb Britain's chronic wildcat walkouts, of which the dock strike is an outstanding example. British dockers already take home an average $84 a week, so hopes of a peaceful settlement were high early on, when union leaders endorsed management offers of a 4% to 7% increase. Those hopes crumbled, however, when rank-and-file insurgents, demanding pay increases closer to 80%, rejected the package and led dockers off the piers. Jack Jones, head of the 1,500,000-member Transport...
With their profits down, automen hint at some tough demands of their own. G.M. Chairman James Roche has complained vehemently about absenteeism in car plants, wildcat strikes and shoddy quality production. "In the negotiations of 1970," he has said, "unions and management must strive together to achieve regular attendance, eliminate unnecessary work stoppages and cooperate in improving quality...
...conference, was that the group running the conference wanted to get the support of union leaders in the anti-war movement, while the opponents of this group regard many union leaders as part of the establishment, willing to sell out their rank and file members. They point to wildcat strikes and the upcoming miners' strike to show that to get a meaningful strike, workers often have to go against their union leaders...