Dunlop Must Win!
Socialist Republic1983Economy, the EEC and EuropeTrade unions and workers' strugglesJohn MageeEconomy, the EEC and EuropeTrade unions and workers' struggles
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Workers at the Dunlop Tyre plant in Cork are continuing their occupation of the plant and the firms head office in Dublin in protest at the company’s closure terms. government appointed mediator John Horgan have company and a drawn-out struggle is being forecast.by the workers’ union the 1.T.G.W.U.
employees fall x fact that the closure wo ’ out - work and have ‘an almost catastrophi effect om the city’
>a Fitzgerald has blamed the Dunlop workers for the laying-off of 5S0 workers at the Ford motor plant in Cork and hinted that Fords would be justified in pulling out as well.
wards to co-operate with the firm. highlights the contempt which multinationals have for their workforce and the refusal of the Dublin government enterprises.
The Dunlop workers are getting nowhere with their demand for better redundancy pay. They should stay in occupation and fight the closure, demand that the government nationalise the plant and action by the whole trade union movement in support.
Efforts by the so far (10.10.83.) failed to shift the op closure serves as a warning to the Multinationals De Spite the uld throw 680 pe »ple where unemployment = the Coalition has weighed im The Dunlop where the workers bent over backsimply to control these call for industrial