Construction ballot: don’t waste the potential!
There is another dispute looming in engineering construction. A national ballot of workers on seven major sites, organised by both the GMB and Unite ran from 11 August to 1 September, taking up the employers’ refusal to make a pay offer or give any guarantees of employment security in the review of the NAECI agreement for 2010. The unions have not published the ballot result. They are putting new proposals from the employers to a national shop stewards’ meeting on 17 September. The two waves of wildcat strikes earlier this year showed that solidarity, all-out action and workplace democracy win...