Coventry Massey Ferguson workers sit-in

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By B Bella OVER 3000 workers at Massey Ferguson, Banner Lane plant. in Coventry are indefinitely sitting-in to protest a situation their unions are not getting information needed for negotiations.

Yesterday the company demanded a £12.50 week wage cut if it withdrew redundancies. The unions are demanding short working time rather than accepting job loss.

Their wage rise last year was well below the rate of inflation and 300 voluntary redundancies were given.

This year there will be no wage rise and the company is seeking 725, mainly compulsory redundancies.

Union reaction has been mixed. The joint engineering/transport union meetings decided to resist all compulsory redundancies action is But staff areas so far have been picked off one by one.

members of the white-collar section transport union tried to break out of this last week when they hit the national news by sitting on the tracks and stopping production in protest against being given redundancy notices.

The shop floor backed them by barring any management attempts to remove them. THE fair, The Black Jacobins, participating from Africa