Current By 1980 ridge y Assembly 6.800 on Lane atry Engines. 2.900 • Lane _ UKPLANTS te (Beigium).. . 3.100 36.200 33,400 ocul ID TOTAL . 42,600 39,600 Current • Bromwich 6,700 y Body .
Dol i Pressings. 1,600 2,500 2,500 2,200 24,800 21.100 18,500 JAGUAR ROVER TRIUMPH Current • Lalit 4,800 r Plas Cars. 4,000 4.000 7,000 1,000 ,000 1,000 sley Green.
6s0l Green 4,600 4,500 78.000 4,900 4,200 36,900 32,200 Hewitt, Branch 1,5908 TGWU, dige .Ithink what's gotto ürst of all is that from ir stewards meeting in humon Saturday 000m acoOt roughout British nil'sgortogo backto Torce,everybody got them.
1961 Total 1982 10SU T3001 13 000 2,600 5,900 6,000 6,300 90C 1,000 Colu 2,500 2.500 28.500 28,600 7.600 5,800 34,500 34,400 8,200 Total Lost 1.100 6.600 o.lul YUU :200 +700 2,800 +300 6,700 1.900 1.900 JUU 17,800 7.000 1981 Total Lost 4,800 4,400 0.0UU 1,000 415; 1.000 4,600 +600 6,000 1.000 FUU 4,900 4,700 1,600 4,400 4,200 Eu. v 22.100 9.900 3.700 3.400 1.500 26.800 25.500 11,400 to betold - they haven't got to jump the gun. Report back and groundioor.
'IF they take on the plants individually then they'll be knocked off one by one — only what you'd do yourself if you were the boss, isn'tit? Hit the weakes! first and get rid of ALAN THORNETT, Transport Union deputy convenor at Cowley, is not well-loved by the Leyland management, nor for that matter by large sections of the union leaderships. Clive Turnbull asked him his views on how to fight the closures. The acceptance in principle of Edwardes redundancy plans by the emergency committee set up by the Confed is obviously a total sell-out. They had authority to accept it from the Confed itself.
They went ahead Edwards accepted to bring haraienne rece vers and shut down the whole of Leyland cars. They collapsed in front of that and so today's demonstration COLIDICLCHYDOLISY I he question we have to ask here is whether they will give a report back on the sell-out and the acceptance in principle the hand-out that's been given to Edwardes.
The only way it can be fought is by direct action in the plants concerned - occupation of the plants concerned and support for the occupations throughout.the rest of Combine - there's no other It's now very very difficult tor those individua plants as it's been accepted at Confed level.
Given that Edwardes' strateg is divide and rule, what kind of no and strategy can unite all the plants the together to overcome that?
Well, it's a leadership question, it's exceedingly difficult if the leadership prepared accept.
The present leadership are unable to tackle the 'viability' problem " viability soon company says go along with the argument. They al C incapable taking a position which starts from the independent interests the workers in that's the basic problem.
the transfers of work from plants under threat of redundancy or closure. in other blacking of transfers. What do you think of that?
Yes, well you can black, actual fact that's' not a Rudi Gayle, Steward, 5909 TGWU, Longbridge 'AT BIRMINGHAM on Saturday they are having a very important meeting, but the Leyland cannot, and should There should be report backs to workplace meetings. When decisions just come down from the top people are naturaily very suspicious.' difficult policy to carry But the crucial question is not blacking but whether you get solid es sance individual plants.
Even if you black, if there's acceptance in the plants that are then other people will accept Blacking is only a subsidiary question. The questions are root and branch resistance from the unions at the lop occupations with action throughout BL. ing is then effective. effective you've got resistance within the individual plants LU cuts the feet from under individual plants The Confed should actively call for a policy of occupations, the give confidence to the workers they in the plants that are being closed, intervene of immediate official backing to a policy of occupations.
Leyland, What about the accountability? Things national conferences of shop stewards haye been put forward - together with issues of rank and file control.
Well, that's a much broader words issue within British Leyland as La whole, around the question of annual reviews and everything goes beyond simply in which is just a question of very fighting redundancies.
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