Vol. 71/No. 21 May 28, 2007
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Electronics strikers in Scotland rally support |
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Militant/Caroline Bellamy
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UDDINGSTON, Scotland, May 11—Seventy people, including dozens of strikers, gather outside the Sunvic Controls electronics plant here before marching to a rally addressed by national trade union leaders. The 42 striking workers, members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and Amicus the Union, have been on the picket line for seven weeks. They are fighting Sunvic’s attempt to impose a 12-week layoff provision with only eight days pay. “We have been treated like dirt,” Margaret Murray, 54, who has worked at Sunvic for 38 years, told the Militant. “Before the strike we were escorted off the premises an hour before the end of our shift. But it’s made us stick together more.” Many strikers have worked at Sunvic for decades and recount with anger the bosses’ intimidation tactics, including installing cameras to film pickets and calling the police. The company is busing in scabs to maintain production. “We don’t know what’s going to happen,” said striker Helen Paterson, “but we’ll stick it out to the end.”
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