Longbridge plant in Birmingham is to escalate following militant meeting on 22 November.
The OVEl management plans to immore cuts levels and rest allowance time, has now been made official by the three unions involved engineerine and transport, sheet metal.
Plans are going ahead to cut off the supply of enginés to BL's other major mass production fac ULY COW CHIRAT Management has held back from imposing the LICW working conditions isolate Longbridge.
national agreement.
from the workers.
elsewhere?
Hours worked Peugeot-Talbot Shrs 15 min Mon Thurs Fiat 7% hrs ITALY 5 days JAPAN Daimier-Benz 8% hrs WEST GERMANY USA 40hr week Daf Trucks HOLLAND 8hrs Ford 8hrs UK and emotional mass once the supply of engines Cowley workers will be in Cowley a position to join the strike and re-establish solidarity with Longbridge.
Although the workforce have been al home during the dispute rather than on the picker lines, the feeling of strength that emerged during the pay dispute earlier has convinced workers that it is possible to win this time.
When Cowley joins the lispute our hand will be ing demands of their jobs. Some of the breaks are simply the nivance of union officials, to claw back these vital minutes How do British workers fare compared to their counterpart -Lunchbreak 1hr unpaid 30 min unpaid Labour law states that employers shail grant total breaks of at least 45 minutes to all workers working more than six hours and breaks totalling 60 minutes for all workers on eight hours or more 30min unpaid 30min paid 30min unpaid meal break times variable but unpaid further strengthened as we are adamant, that it is we. the workers who have to suffer the present working and not out national officials negotiate the settlement on Once again, Leyland workers are proving to all working people that despite the beating have taken at the hands of Edwardes, and, to their everlasting disgrace, national officials, we have the will and the capacity to take on Edwardes and his Tory backers and win.
Mersapes solidarity should be semend Committee/Joint HELMERES Committee. Other breaks 48min on Mon Thurs 34min-Fri 40min BL workers saying what they think
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By a TGWU shop steward, Longbridge THE three week old dispute at British Leyland's
Tea breaks around the world ALL car workers around the world take breaks from the gruel!-
result of 'custom and practice' and some the result of local or In the case of Britain, the bosses are trying, with the con-