AN ATTEMPT by Timex management to stop lockedout and sacked workers meeting at the Dundee factory gates was defeated in an Edinburgh court in mid March.
The company had argued that there had been vandallem inside the factory and that pickets wore 340 workers, 80per percent are Lord Cullen, presiding at the court, sald he was not convinced that a nuisance was being caused.
Meanwhile two Timex convenors, John Kydd and Willie Lesile, face Jail after ment accused them of defying a previous court inferdict prevent. ing them organising mass pick ats, and ordering them not to go within half a mile of the court.
The dispute at Timex stems from wage cuts and lay-offs. When management wanted lay. offs, the workers proposed that hour-reductions be shared equally. But management in. sisted on 140 workers of their choice being lald off for six STERS Workers responded with a series of stoppages forcing san agreement. But then management came back with more demands for wace cuts; and when workers voted not to accept these demands they were locked out. The workers have since been sacked.
mex manacement have been bussing in scabs; they usually run 24-hour working, but so far have only beon able to mount a day shift.
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