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*A total their radios closely tuned to the industrial news these days, the storm swells up against the policy that Prime Miniser sno nancelor ouR have This is the checklist of anger against the 5 per cent.

of 57,000 Ford still on strike after overwhelmingly the penal terms attached to a 16½ per cent pay offer.

bakery workers on strike for a 26 per cent rise after down deal, with productivny, worl aboul *26,000 Vauxhall employees will be meeting next week to decide whether to accept an 8 Leyland workers have walked out of the Drews Lane plant in Birmingham in protest at a 5 per cent per offer. The demand is for a £15 Edwardes has already made quite clear the direction he wants to see the Two weeks ago he called a meeting of union officials and convenors in Leyland when he unveiled the company's plans These include closing Senesse vanden Plas in No.8 Foundry in Leeds, and Coventry engines.

Redundancies are also Cowle and Longbridge, and Edwardes has threatened to close Solihull if Barry Graham: 'Ford wives are behind the strike' * 'special treatment' on the basis of their claim for an £80 a week basic wage.

*42,000 workers are demanding rises of 20 per cent.

*3,000 British Oxygen employees have been urged by their negotiators to turn down 9 per cent.

*5,000 Scottish lorry drivers -the first of 500.000 engaged it regional negotiations seeking an increase of 25 per cent.

*Over million local authority workers are seeking a 40 per cent increase to lift their the present £42.40 to £60 a week *700,000 civil servants have just set upa fim fighting fundto smash through 5 per cent.

*Over 60,000 members of the furniture and timber trade union, FTAT, have rejected a 5 cent "all in' offer as "derisory".

management proposals on shift working are not agreed.

Edwardes' aim is to achieve Japanese levels of produc LIVIEV In this context, Derek Robinson's expectation that if unions are 'reasonable Leylane manasemen wilDe more flexible seems grossly out of touch.

In contrast to Robinson, the unofficial Leyland Stewards Committee for the Annual Review is setting the lead in calling forindustrial action now in support of their claim.