Ford waves the big stick and dangles a small carrot

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AS 57,000 Ford workers clocked in at the start of this week they were faced a draconian disciplinary code.

And at the end of the week maracemen offer cool - are or i it and a response case small carrot Le scholary code any worker who stops work r reason, including safety, now faces • Suspensio the rest of the shift and the following one Other workers who refuse to re-man the job' normall GOTT by the suspended worker Or. words refuses to scab will get the same treatmchl And if the productior within half an hour stoppage the whole depart ment, even the plant, could disciplinary penalty Management claims that this codons in real so t is in pages, which it says have taken olace this vear It maintains that its aim is to get workers to abide bs procedural Says cvervone must work or. mally until the problem is solved', agreement problem' can lake up to two weeks le be so ved In attemptin g to imple ment the new code, manage ment is itself going back on bast arcanens. seectica v that wich follower the strike, riots, and an occupa. tion at the Dagenham plant in the mid-1970s.

wages Iront tne company will be replying to unions' 1980 wages and conditions claim The calculate tha increases of betweer £25 and t27 a week acros: le grades would be necace to retore wages to their October , or £15 to £17.50 week the November 1979 value.

Threshold payments as BOTOLCCLION better holidays, full sick pay better equal staff o job security, and a special pa for line workers ar alSO : on the de.

are now proposing will not operate until 1985 T Workers Ford reaction of Ron chairperson trade Joint Negotiating Committe which amounted to agreeing wit the company's disagreeing only methods.

Ford Workers Group is arguing for a difresponse; any to be solved on the spot, li the department concerned without involving personne for shop stewards commit lets to daopt a policy o workers and Group distributed a leafle nothing less than a f15 to £17.50 a week rise should be accepted.

Socialist Challenge 20 November 1980 Page 5

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