Commission for Racial Equality.
Four years ago complaints of racial discrimination WCIC made at British Leyland, Castle Bromwich. The CRE saltu thạt BL and two engineering union shop stewards contravened the Race Keauons Act 1976 by refusing to give a job to a black applicant after a shopfloor meeting of machinetool fitters voted not to accept black recruits.
George Jones, fully qualitied maintenance fitter who was born in Barbados, was the victim of collusion between racist workers, the AUEW sh pise said tat he bides said that didn't realise that he had been rejected A SMALL corner of the curtain that hides the effects of racism in the workplace was lifted this week by the because he was black until a friend at the factory told him about the shop floor decision.
This is not the only incident in British Leyland.
Officially, BL has broker the Race Relations Act twice before. In December 1980 it admitted to an Employment Appeal Tribunal that jected two Asians, both former empioyecs. TOP jobs labourers because they unable to complete an application in their own handwriting.
In a second case, a tribunal ruled that the company acted unlawfully in June 1979 when requiring West employee to change his job lamentary candidate mer parliamentary National deliberately voked the black employee.
Bill Jordan, Midlands divisional organiser of the AUEW, said that his union brought so ins attentiose wall brought to shop stewards were being aavised about the against discimination «ne waoie macidenı reveac had the toothlessness of both legal trade utlull racial discimination.
were Black workers suffer loss and humiliation while the courts and the unions mouth micamgiess platituaes.
Indian Very La fight to force the unions to act - ine up and