By a TGWU shop steward Longbridge By the time you read this, the 1800 of us who have been on strike at Longbridge will have met to decide the next stage of our fight over the implementation of the 39-hour week. Management are trying to impose a cut of 25 per cent in breaks allowed to workers during a shift. allowed 12 per cent rest allowance -twelve minute breaks in addition to our lunch break.
and the management have been playing the whole thing very quietly. for our money to run out.
this will mounting pickets to bring the rest of Longbridge out on strike with us stopping the movement of cars as well as going to other plants to look for support.
assembly areas who started the strike and the decision to end it must be theirs and theirs alone.
stewards have been so united over an issue but the sitting on the fence of the works committee has not provided the leadership sions of the membership having advised them not to extend the strike and look for support plants blamed for the return to work but if we don't confront the probiem of over this dispute together plants like Cowley then the problem will only return to haunt us again.
unless it is turned into effective picketing and blacking action. We must demand support from all levels ot the union from the works committee up to the national officials themselves over this issue.
organise to take it for ourselves.
strings attached! Spread the strike action across BL!
Up until the week before last we were Already we have been on strike for two weeks They know they can sit and wait even if we get official only Rather than sitting at home we should have been It was the direct production workforce in the It is a long time since the workforce and the necessary to win this As always they can hide behind the deciWe all know that it was Longbridge who the other our local and national with other So far we have had unity but this is meaningless The company will not give us anything unless we Make the union fight! For a 39 hour week with no