DURING the protest demonstration a fortconvenor Monday 8 June. Action committee meeting in the morning, where we report back on the Leyland com bine meeting. We organise coaches for the lobby of the Transport Union's automotive group nationa committee on 18 June, and of the TGWU's biennial delegate conference which starts on 22 June.
It's also decided to go for another £1 collection. and we begin to organise for the demonstration August in Birmingham We will have to visit al the main factories in Birm ingham Black Country. We decide to ask Benn, Scargill and Kitsor to speak.
Tuesday: Management inform us that there are 20 vacancies the Land Rover. This rapidly becomes a hot potato. Wednesday: The shop stewards meeting at dinner time agrees to all the action committee proposals. But a couple of stewards warn that the response to the new fl collection will be worse than the first.
One of the problems at the moment that the stewards tend to go with the mood of the section rather than lead anc change it.
Thursday: First reports on the t collection are disappointing I speak to four sections and go through the main balancing management the social cost of closure. he mood gets better.
Friday: The money starts coming in but the Land Rover jobs issue is still simmering.
Among more militant stewards mere is a make or break attitude: ask the mass mecling and if we don't get it we