Rover - BL management on the offensive

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Deputy senior steward, Rover SD1 Plant SHOP STEWARDS at Leyland's Rover SD1 plant at Solihull have overwhelmingly management plans to axe. 1,445 jobs at the plant. The four-year-old plant is the most modern in and assembles the 'European Car of the Year', the Rover 3500.

Management blames market, stagnant productivity and inefficiency for cutbacks in production from a line rate of 1,850 a week to 1,250. Current proposals are for one of three assembly systems to be closed completely and for job cuts in all areas Registered with the Post rejected For example, are 50 per cent.

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Management are using cutbacks in production to go on the offensive on staffing levels throughout SDI. The cut in production is about one-third, but proposed cuts are about 42 per the two issue. remaining systems line speed remains the same but over 150 jobs are to be lost. In some areas the proposed cuts Management have also refused to reveal their forward plans for SDI. But it is obvious to all that if SD1 is not Less so at 41,00 cars per week it is still stewards feel that temporary and once management have smashed the unions Published by will be expanded again. Mutuality on industrial engineering standards has been a major obstacle to speed-up and management are using. the opportunity to attack the unions on this But the cutbacks in SD1 cannot be seen in a purely local context. The crisis in the car industry is world-wide and the fight to defend jobs and conditions is only beginning.

With unemployment heading for 2 million and 50 per cent of school leavers expecting to be unemployed this time next year, every job must b seen as the property working class and not just of an individual.

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