Cable strike over
A strike by 190 workers at Austral Standard Cables at Homby ended yesterday when the company reinstated a worker whose dismissal had led to the strike. The workers met at 8 a.m. and resolved to step up their industrial action with pickets and bans unless the company reinstated the night shift worker dismissed after he allegedly urinated
in the company grounds. <5 One of the points the Engineers’ Union made in * defence of the worker was a that certain toilets were ' locked at night. b The assistant secretary of s the union, Mr Ged O’Con-? nell, said that the workers 2 were pleased that the com- f pany had decided to rein- ' state the worker and to pay him wages owing. o
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Press, 26 July 1984, Page 6
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