COUL their is that to the tactics of Edwardes. Our plant has always been moderate. contest three groups of workers.
One group want to take on CONSIGL says. Another group is the they opposite and conceded on every front.
In between are the majority who sand. One of the determinfactors in VOIC WES leadership had been eiven.
Even though it shows membership will respond.
Edwardes' brutal have galvanised this. company has psychological the minds of the members.
Our task is a difficult members back. blem with people like Dutfy and Chapple is they take they represent the views of the average, membership You'll never get sup port for action if you don't the more develop membership's of what life is really about develop other sciousness for It's a damning indictshop ment that Duffy statements to the press bestewards in Coventry time this body has TWO WCI also been mass distributed in the PLETILS mains the case that the actual clain time union officials and convenors and simply rubber stamped by the pilus turned the officials recommendation in order to adopt an identical claim in 1978 a 35 The big question is workers fight? week strike destroved Healey's five per cent wage limit policy and open divi- ed the way for the lorry drivers and public sector workers. In 1981 the shop floor is well aware that with 3 shop million unemployed and Thatcher's GEOFF STOCKHAM, Deputy Convenor, Rover Works, Cardiff (personal capacity), spoke to THE VOTE at the Cardiff Rover plant exceeded our expectations. It was over three to one to come out on 1 November. It was a gut reaction There are tragedy, expect such statements.
He's Shitting the strike labour movement.
Duffy's Tan MacG the tactics can succeed is if The union waged smashed to bits. fo dispute is not The they saving members.
moderate Edwardes' difficult his brutal tactics the awareness mass makes last chance.
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met since 1978 leaflets from the This is all to the good. But it re The shop stewards actually overwill Ford In 1978 our nine bonuses. schemes money.
benefit others, on this issue moaning the strike as a back The was member of the CBI you'd been forced to other back strike action because his back is up against the wall. He must be aware of the implications of the Edsive of manage ment for the whole of the Edwardes has a direct will be link with the government and he's got disciples like ween our Gregor in the stee industry. he oniy way the monetarism of the Tories the trade ed there. It other organisations are Midlands The main point in this and rule money but industrial relations. Dutty recognises that the trade locally unions are heine backed up into a wall and unless stand up he'll lose members There are also people waiting in the wings to buy and liquidate parts will go of it. We should question motives haps he wants a scapegoat out.
We cannot be intimid ated by this. We'd all like our ground, and this may no tion has be the best one. But it's the only one we've got, it's ou per cent things are more dirficult.
In addition most have been slaughtered by short time working for the last eighteen months. Due to the lack of direction and fight from the plant union leaderships over WOTAN HOTE voluntary redundancy now than a However, the biggest and most decisive Assembly Plants at both Dagenham and Halewood - have not suffered short time. Halewood has the new Escort which has sold faster across the world than any car in Ford's history And Dagenham is currently being re-equipped for the launch of the car which will replace the Cortina In addition, Ford UK is still making money, which is being used to prop up the near bankrupt Ford USA The union is right to start with the demand for flat rate increases and not These bonus are bent and under the control of the company. They work in its Tavour occausc we can De headed off with buy-off"
will them and like ours, won't. ty They will try to split us up should also get to the resolition of the old, unofficial Combine Committee on refusing to accept work from planti agree to let it go. November that the rest of Leyland must support any plant under threat of 1 quidation or closure Otherwise the wedge put There's always been hostility betplant and the Midlands because of fear that our work will be movapplies the way with the workers grubbing for work. This is divide Part of our discussion is about how would lobby the executive around any offer made to make sure they reflect the This is what the local strike committee would do. Duffy for a situation where it appears to be the The membership and not the leadership that have sol the time Dad liaison trough the liaison through Combine Committee. Thi of national organisa was nor a officials because it the na major Ford plants determined and national short time destroyed taking despite Dagenham press shop Body and abroad of 20 stamping We have the cher's four percent.
threatens the sack. The British Leyland workers have been steamrollered by Edwardes and his plan.
Leyland has never had sufficient investment and has snent massive amount. on interest payments on We also 102TS need management team greater social responsibilion the DECIDED Leyland as a public company to provide a continuity of employment in the British car industry.
Edwardes has no such ting a dog loose in a but caves shope eh we k We have Id have an harin rom the company's ide We also have to make sure there is accountability.
Of course, the present ANOVE BUCHE wouldn't stomach this. Weld need a Labour government, Even here we need to be mindful that it was Callaghan who imposed Edwardes on uS in the firsi place. We'd need a different type of government with different policies.
The union officials are afraid of the link up bere weak because they ween industria. and political Do in the General Strike action like The -ITIONS have never really been right since then cannot sce how the can stand back now tactics of Edwarde workers are giving the 4 percent th two fingers The strike action should be made general This is a dispute with the unions. camel the cannot let them get away with it.
responsibility stewards and plant leaderships -LOVICE CLIE floor that the claim can be won has to be pointed out that two weeks strike action by workers earlier this year the company's disciplinary code; that Dagenham lorry drivers have fought to work official sabotage that workers are blocking the shippin dies which threaten hundreds of jobs power to win and we won't be fighting alone. Leyland workers are facing the government head on. Miners, lorry drivers and tanker drivers are all lined up with big claims. The job of our nationa officials is to pull these together into a common onslaught against ThatSocialist Challenge 29 October 1981 Page 5
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