country to oppose housing sales.
Sales Berlin, the NALGO housing convenor ‚loud last laursory wi' is own members were will Socialist Challenge Saturday 17 January Open to all labour movement organisations Credentials from: Secering Committee, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, Brixton, London SW2 17 December 1980 Page 4 TWO important strengthening Puropean Ford Workers Langley earlier this month.
Both meetings . were timely. Ford deer crisis In the third quarter f248m in the United States alone, losses for the • year run at £2bn.
The company's response is the same everywhere: cutbacks and closures accom the Daniel by troduction technology further its. ability tion on a global scale, international labour solidarity is the only effective barrier to Ford management's plans.
The two • meetings duced different ConTerence was bureaucrats' Most of those not Ford workers but union the lay delegate: in the Il-strong British delegation, one was meetings aimed the international unity Combine met in convenol of* the Dagenham convenors' panel, Taha general secretary of the Association ot scientific Technical and Managerial Staff branch in Dagenham Engine Plant Communist-leo unions Spain, allu rul tugal were excluded.
resolution the IMF conference spoke of 'solidarity the (SocialistFord/Spain, ahmunis-led 10. Workers Commissions which have the most shopfloor workers in Despite vague appeals to Ford manatemen recognise free trade unions everywhere the solidarity by the IMF was a ban on overume in the event of a strike in Britain or Australia such was • Presumably if it has that effect, it's okay. Results The Euroneat Workers Combine (FFWC' was more redes. meeting grouping ported by the union leaderArUra blalll.
Denmark, and Portugal; by Communist-led unions French and Spanish militant and shop Britain and Most coilall the acciacc [na wage contracts would be the tion in the redundancy and the jobs vauscu robolisalloll Ford is already trying to renege on the 1979 British should have given reduced workins time November this Some Ford plants presently ycal.
WULK ICS 1 40 nours 38 hours 20 minutes a week Belgium 37½-hour veek in plants where a thre shit syster I Operate the critiçal struggle is for the 35-hour week In oppositior nationally-based campaigns Lne of fighting Italianc no 11S WOrt • between • witho nien • or The plant losing the work. Export and export unemployment through im port controls - even if they - would on ly divide rord workers the face of the company's The EFWC will also be taking the pions at the of Ford unions IMF Metalworker Lioneli Federation • to organise official con non-exclusive ISiS . delegates from the plants:
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almost half a million Ford workers around the world have recently been held. The International Metalworkers Federa- tion Ford World Auto Council met in Valen- cia, Spain, in mid-November. The unofficial