ENGINEERS BRITAIN
WAGE RISE OFFER REJECTED
LONDON, March 17. Leaders representing more than 3,000,000 engineering workers in Britain today rejected an offer of a 5 per cent wage increase -and called an emergency meeting of the 39 unions involved.
Mr Gavin Martin, general secretary of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, said: “The employers would not give anything over 5 per cent., but we are thinking in terms of 15 per cent.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27302, 19 March 1954, Page 11
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73ENGINEERS BRITAIN Press, Volume XC, Issue 27302, 19 March 1954, Page 11
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