By Rich Palser in Solihull workers at BL's SD1 plant in Solihull have been on management's attempts staffing levels.
As typical of Leyland, the finding themselves one's battle, but fighting it alone On 12 September they were called into work by the works which covers all three BL plants on up a the Solihull site.
Joe Harris, stewards to recommend a return to facing work.
Management had said they would second week running, return to work. strike over to cut Return disputes workers at SDI are fighting everyThe overwhelming.
• COLLICC Thursday The site convenor, wanted the SDI plant had the victory gates - but by first inions.
above the cold.
the picket Worse But Faced line of resisting is possible, continues.
More BL don't tear appealing membership through plant is silent. done. The membership thought that having been called in a day early, a settlement was near, and since then they had been in a frame of mind to Although they voted to stay out on 12 September, it was only two to one.
had previously been Management is now more confident to sit it out — a feeling no doubt reinforced by events last The mass meeting the day before picket the Range Rover and Land Rover plants, since which management was flouting covered them also, and stopping those plants would bring closer. So at 6.30am Thursday the pickets arrived at the 'Stopping lorries is a piece of piss senior steward Bill Mullins told me as he stepped out into the road. After the first lorry turned back, spirits rose But then the lorries from Leylan in Oxford began to arrive. 'We'r been told by our district secretary to official pickets, the driver said. So TGWU members cross line set up by other members of their union.
worse was lo come. The drivers based at Solihull also insisted on crossing — they had been told to Dy lne works collice such a display of 'solidarity', it is hardly surprising that workers who have been in the front Edwardes' cutbacks have lacked confidence that resistance although the strike importantly, happening at Solihull shows just how management operates they up agreements, they just 're-define' them.
The SD1 workers are determined to win so they are digging in. They are to the rank and the other leafleting and contacting sympathetic stewards. In the mean time the production line in the SD1 Settling accounts with the works leadership will have to wait until they are back inside the gates.