the rail unions have now launched their own mass "take back the track" and I he train crew meeling was the national dispute over the too much" guards and Railtrack and the operating companies have been trying operating come nic making losses at the end of their franchise period - all the problems of it "costing to re-nationalise And it would be popular -the public cicarly wants the Vauxhali workers fighting to save jobs from the axe have now staged a successful series of strikes - but the action so far has been restricted to short stoppages. There has been no attempt by the Luton stewards to act on their radical policy statement, which declared that This is our plant. General Motors of Europe have given up their right to call it theirs. There is a real danger that with a number of new jobs on offer at a neighbouring plant, and in the absence of a fighting lead and occupation of the Luton plant, the early militancy of the Vauxhall struggle could be dissipated, and the remaining jobs could be lost without further resistance.
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