Ryder's investment proposals 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 that is, closing plants and sacking workers.
£1000 per year -are demanding.
In the same year BL payments — enough for an increase of £15, Interest payments counted for half BL's losses in 1980. How to pay BL workers IN 1980 BL spent £146m 'restructuring' the firm — This would have paid for a wage increase for BL's 144,000 workers in the UK and overseas of just over - that is, the f20 per week which they spent £105m in interest 'Profitability' as a criterion means that first these payments have to be made, to give the bosses their pound of flesh, and then BL should make a profit.
and closure costs alone acDagenham assembly plant 'I'LL THINK about a strike on 23 November.' This was the scandalous reaction senior Ford union negotiator, to the company's insulting four per cent pay offer last Friday.
national union officials parallel' the company has turned down flat £20 across the board claim ana ls rerusing even to consider the demand for a 35-hour week.
on acceptance of five efficiency measures which will help strip Ford the next three years.
so-called vatuy s proposals ana troauction or new tecnnoiogy and work elimination of demarcation between jobs. assemblv line workers would be expected to equipment anc work areas skilled workers and janitors.
negotiations of Ron Todd. talk Ing With Leyland on the brink of strike action, ane Convenors efficiency negotiations paThis is despite the fact that despite the only divide Even four per cent is conditional That's workers of 24,000 jobs in These conditions amount to next effective sanction of the com'After Japan' includes such items as co-operation in the in- fer on systems and the 9 November.
example, repair their own November clean their water House eliminating both The coy talk about 'parallel' La new break. through in bureaucrats' doublecover the negotiators from attack for selljobs for wages. At the Coventry Ford stewards conference in September, Ron Todd solemnlv promised that there would be no discussion on efficiency before the pay and hours claim had been settled.
Already 4,000 jobs have been lost in Ford in the last two years, opening of a new engine plant at Bridgend, and 54,000 manual workers are left. Todd's attitude threatens to Ford Leyland workers and weaken the strug. gle of both in the face of the shopfloor militants will be arguing in stewards Che mit esan tor auches over week for our national •tcas io cala mediere stake action if the company does not come back with a no strinas' ot pay and when negotiations resume on Monday Leyland workers are also being approacnea lo jol a las: lobby of the Ford pay talks on 9 at 9.30am BaysMoscow Place, will be tenng our negotiatiors to bring us all out and fight for the claim in full. Ron Todd: pleased at another sell out? Socialist Challenge +5 November 1981 sPage 3
By Toni Gorton and Ray Reid