捍卫工作权利:1983年邓迪Timex工人的占领

IF 0.3 3区 历史学 Q4 Arts and Humanities
V. Wright, J. Philips, J. Tomlinson
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1983年1月,美资跨国公司天美时(Timex)宣布将停止在邓迪生产机械手表。自1946年以来,天美时一直是邓迪的知名雇主。大量裁员将伴随着克雷格的米尔顿生产单位的关闭,该单位雇用了2000名主要是男性的熟练工程师和工具制造商。随着天美时完成向电子产品分包业务的多元化转型,该市另一家工厂将保留约2,000名主要为女性的装配线工人,该工厂位于坎珀当(Camperdown)。天美时的这一声明违反了劳动力的道德经济。只有在与工会代表谈判并保证受影响者安全的情况下,才允许作出重大改变。资本正在离开邓迪,尽管公司收到了国家和地方政府的许多拨款。4月8日,米尔顿的工人占领工厂,抵制强制裁员。天美时没有停止制表,但避免了强制裁员,保留了工会的声音。那些愿意的人被转移到坎珀当。占领是邓迪去工业化进程中的一个重要事件,但在大众的记忆中,随着1993年公司最终离开这座城市,激烈的争议已经变得模糊不清。
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Defending the Right to Work: The 1983 Timex Workers’ Occupation in Dundee
In January 1983 the US-owned multinational Timex, a prominent employer in Dundee since 1946, announced it would cease production of mechanical wristwatches in the city. Substantial redundancies would accompany closure of the Milton of Craigie production unit where 2,000 mainly male skilled engineers and toolmakers were employed. About 2,000 mainly female assembly-line workers would be retained at another factory in the city, at Camperdown, as Timex completed its diversification into subcontracting work in electronics. With this announcement Timex violated the workforce’s moral economy. Significant changes were only permissible where negotiated with union representatives and where the security of those affected was preserved. Capital was leaving Dundee, despite the firm’s receipt of many grants from national and local government. On 8 April Milton workers resisted compulsory redundancy by occupying their plant. Timex was not stopped from ending watchmaking, but compulsory redundancies were averted and a union voice was preserved. Those who wished were transferred to Camperdown. The occupation was a crucial episode in Dundee’s deindustrialization, but has been obscured in popular memory by the bitter dispute accompanying the firm’s final departure from the city in 1993.
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