The crisis at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (U.C.S.)
Subtitle: pre-conference discussion bulletin
By: by John Anderson
Published: 1972
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Shipbuilding industry; Employees; Industrial relations; Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
Notes: Typescript.

"No. 9"-- Page 1 of cover.

Cover title.

"International Marxist Group"--Page 1 of cover.

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) -- a Scottish shipbuilding consortium of five major shipbuilders of the River Clyde -- entered liquidation in 1971. Rather than go on strike, the union leadership decided to have a "work-in" and complete the orders that the shipyards had in place. The shipbuilders' tactics worked and public sympathy was on their side. As a result, Heath's government relented and restructured the shipyards.