TIMEX strikers have been picketing the Timex plant in Besancon in France as part of their campaign.
The strike committee had been too that & new croup or workers are being engaged at the ditions lower than those relected by the union in Dundee. The French union the CGT is supporting the strikers' action. Trice unions in Denmark trade unionists have formed two support groups, and have invited the strikers to retur after the hollday period is over.
Four Timex strikers have also gone to the United States for talks with trade union leaders and to visit workers employed at Timex plants in Little Rock and By Councillor Greg Tucker IN A further twist to the witchunt in Lambeth Ted Knight and other ex-Councillors have been barred from the panel for candidates in the 1994 council elections.
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As part of the campaign against limex. tony benn launched the Timex Boycott Campaign on 13 July at the House of Commons.
He was joined by John MaCallion MP. Ernie Ross MP, V C Turner (Pentonville Five) and Secretary of the AEU). Messages of support were read out from Timex Support Groups in Oslo, Copenhagen and the United States.
Consumers and workers The campaign, organised by the Timex Support Groups, has a two pronged strategy, involving both a consumer boycott of all Timex and Timex related goods and companies and a workers' baycolt. holding office for five years. After a massive campaign of sup port from the abour movement they paid off the surcharge and are now able to stand for elecHowever the London Labour on the grounds that they 'do not have an acceptable public profile for the party' and that they "do not show commitment to the chansed image of Labour in Lambeth'.
The Timex Boycott Campaign is calling on the organised labour movement not to handle Timex goods or materials that directly ald the company's scab operation in Dundee Already the TGWU have pledged support for the campaign at their conference, and the campaign is holding talks with stewards in the shop-workers' union USDAW and UCW to organise a national boycott. • Further information from: Timex Boycott Campaign, clo London Timex Support Group, LUTURC, 12 - 14 Thornton Street, London, SW9 OBL, Tel: 071 733 5670 or PO Box 90, Dundee, DD2 2YA, Tel: 0382 642382.