trumpeted Bill Jordan's propaganda machine. The C3l must have been licking their lips.
Jordan's campaign to get a 'yes' voro to create a new newing super union has been in top gear since the AE executive backed mercer wth the EETPU in December. And ho has no qualms, as ever, of using lies, distortion and downright blackmail to back up his case. AEU officials opposing the move kept 'no' vote would endanger their jobs. Then he came out with 'proof that the vast majority of the membership supported the merger with the scab union reported by The Times.
Apparently, 81 per cent had voted yes'. But a closer look at the figures indicates otherwise. In fact only one in voted 'yes'. So just over 10 per cent of the total sample said 'yes' much for Bill's overwhelming majority.
There is everything still to fight for in the run-up to February's ballot. And the issues at stake are of vital imporment.
Jordan and Hammond's campaign risks creating a milion-strong union covering the whole engineering threatening to spit it. The creation of Battling on: Oxford's Pergamon strikers a powerful bastion of yellow offerIng ine bosses single-union tum, is a major threat to the labour move. ment. was not joking that the merged union wouk be the largest by far in terms of single-union deals, the most attractive by far to inward investing companies.
It is those companies" bank balanA thing of the past? AEU leader Jordan addresses mass meeting ces that the merger will serve, not the interests of engineering workers. BiE Jordan's campaign of lies has not won yet. ALy actvists need to use the nox! fow wooks to ensure that the 'no' votes win and fight for a united engineers union inside the TUC