Solihull In doing so, they will be joining confronting the Tories' plans for the nationalised industries.
Before they came to office, the Tories drew up a plan for dealing with tne trade umon movement. They identified steel and BL as two worktorces they could. confront and defeat.
is no doubt that policy lies behind the refusal of BI management to ollge Trom works and o per cent tor of 5 cent for non-craft workers. Ine orer Is tied package of conditions which would relacI SODOOI organisation in BL entirely ineffective.
It would introduce full mobility labour, and mutuality the union executives to call & strike of the BL workforce.
industrial engineering, comprehensive 'no strike' clause. . OOR would end the role stewards.
Sacking The union this desperately tried to controntation. but after his success in the ballot on the Edwardes' plan, and in sacking Derek TO ? for compromise.
He believes that the workers in BL are not ready for a fightback and that the threat of permanent closure will frighten people back to WOLK.
. supercede Laest clauses of shop leaderships have avoid government WOLLCE demand of 'scrap the plants which amourccd But the feeling on the shopfloor strike. is that this time they have to fight becoming - with a correct lead BL workers effects of recent maeR besols soko rest of the working class on how to Very early on in the dispute, the will threaten BL closure therefore be necessary to raise the Edwardes' further plan'. and to oppose the closures o1 the Castle Bromwich and Canley have already been Wales Triplex, amoulc This demand will be essential if we are to bring these plants out on NO They will see no point in involved struggle if their M Core closed by the end of the year. Resurrect The gradual decline of the car industry is having a serious effect fight on ne wroe emaree ne malse in the West Midlands, and this is a ICabU CULLe Teol Rices ane cosures.. as tic steelworkers are doing in South Lucas, Wilmott Breeden, and among others, redundancies need to link up with these workers to fight job loss.
The other demand which has to be brought up is to resurrect the full wage claim. This was for £24 across the board and the 35-hour week The latter needs to be part of ou fight against job loss, and £24 is a minimum ir aving standaras arc u be preserved. This fight in BL will struggle DESCV union organisation in Britain's largest engineering combine The government wants to use it to win its first big victory against the working class A victory fo British Leyland workers would be a major bow to tory strategy But it we are to win to put the control of the aspure iu tac nands or tne rank ank file. The result of leaving it to bureaucracy battle to reinstate Derek Robinson. wat SocI • during th -essons A first step in the fight fo democratic control of . the SUl Y 18 800 delegate conference of all BL stewards. will also press for an elected strike regular mass meeting.
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ALL OUT ON AFTER more than six months of so-called negotiations, the Leyland Combine Joint Negotiating Committee has asked