FORD's new disciplinary code will increase productivity and reduce satety. ALL OVER the country, Ford workers have rejected the company's 9.8 per cent pay offer. After the new National Insurance increases the offer is worth only f5 a week for manual workers.
While asking the mass theen's TOT SINDON more talks. our national have failed to actions they va agallot the company.
will labocl Wilchl rorerenses union claim for 20 per cent shorter and fringe The present 'non-cooperation' with the paper has ended the current •roccoutal colla provide tne Dasis 1o an effective fighting polcy into a campaign to break the disciplinary company code. This code seeks to imDOsC ucs or lwu uays pay every me a subcavisor su struction refused or mostops for : 10 minutes Management also involvec off Lays any plant affected by these suspensions.
and the recent rebellion of UK firms at the Last week the shopfloor at the Halewood plant Nerse siee gave answer the new code. When 22 workers from the : shop press for rotating boring jobs, workers struck in support The the management sent Tound a Estembly and body plant tle for DOLA Alter SIX-WCCK Haewoo har wortengu "to rotate jobs with no conditions attached. Ford has invested £207m in the last year, and £135n went on the new robotised ascort lltes It wants to use the new End stop stek ards and of shop stewards and productivity L cae was mitrouuccu or 17 November it was openly flouted.
Ford claimed last Thursday in the Daily Telegraph 'Halewood targets since the plant open so that it can push through recumeances as a result o robotisation.
press shop workers shown the way 1ir luaca nov • DalliC between. unions for shopfloor power.
such lear lead has come from th lational negotiators. Whh full time officials and con• have shied :away that rejecting the company's otter means we must prepare lor surike action.
There is no way in which Ford will make an pay offer unless it is forced Hkoy Clal the company wike len leaf out of the Leyland book going over the heads o putting increase in ine pay packets doptng a new policy cooperatior ung shop stewaras commil tees to support for strike action in January will Ford be defeated and our claim won. Britain, and more rights for the native tionalism had their limits.
tant community.^ Wolfe Tone rebellion against British rule.
rule from Westminster. grown food was exported to England alleviate the suffering, which made famine inevitable.
the years progressed greater freedom from British control.
Grattan sought more indopendence from Catholics. But both his liberalism and naAs he told members of the Protestant Ascendancy in Dublin: 'I love the Roman Catholic. I am a friend to his liberty, but it is only inasmuch as his liberty is entirely consistent with your ascendancy, and addition to the strength and freedom of the Protes The half-way house to Irish freedom and oquality was, for many, too little. In 1798 first modern armed He was easily deteated and two years later Britain passed the Act of Union which abolished the Irish parliament once and for all, restoring direct HuMen tre the Gosa Hunger of 1845-48 when Ireland lost at least a quarter of its population through famine and emigration. More than a million died as homeThe Westminster government did little to having previously established an agriculture system in Ireland " OME ROLE, the aventual political response by the Irish to British misgovernment of the country. The demand for Irish Home Rule began to be voiced in the late 1860s and grew louder and louder as Home Rule envisaged the return of an Irish parliament but with Britain still retain-