TUC lets down oil workers
Eugene Rutherford, secretary of the Liverpool Branch of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee, spoke to Socialist Organiser. Probably four thousand men have now been sacked in the North Sea. They have got to be reinstated before we go anywhere. We are going for basic trade union rights offshore. We want union recognition, and the Health and Safety Act implemented. We came to the TUC Congress to lobby the unions and make them aware. We're going to be their conscience. The response so far has been pretty poor. They don't want to look at us. They just walk past us like we're not here. All I see...