Screw Strike Settled
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 4. A six-months’ stoppage over who should drill holes in aluminium-faced wood in new ships was settled in Birkenhead today. Sheet metal workers—not joiners—will do the job. The two unions concerned, the Ship Constructors’ and Shipwrights’ Association and the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, reached the agreement in consultation with the shipbuilders. Cammell Laird. The trouble reached a head last September when 300 Birkenhead ship’s joiners stopped work because the job of fitting the composite sheets in three new ships had been given to the metal men. Another 200 joined them later. Some were paid off. The joiners ended their strike n April, after it had considerably delayed Birkenhead shipbuilding and affected overseas orders.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 13
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121Screw Strike Settled Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 13
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