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PAT HICKEY Longbridge shop steward about the deal. What do you think the deal means for BL It is a big step forward for management and the Tories. It stops the unions in a claim until 1984. which means that on the major issue of wages and conditions the union is removed from the scene The deal will be used to further attack the workforce on manning levels and conditions.
will also be used to attack the shop stewards.
Yearly wage deals have been the rule in British industry for years.
This deal is an important break with that In view of its importance why was there not a call for all-out action. instead of an overtime ban and one-day strikes?
action was necessary to defeat BL.
But it was clear that such a call would not succeed at the mass meenngs. In return for just over E5 a week this year, two years. This is more competetive asked Grant Kier.
The idea was to use the One las actions to build towards all-out.
BL workforce have had heavy defeats and long ex perience of betrayal at th hands the officials Taking on BL means tak ing on the government and the members did no have the confidence to d Our only chance was t get the limited action rol ing and build on that.
plan: hav militants in BL got nov Firstly the right have th control of the union They wanted to accept!
2 year deal from the sta which is why there was chance of an all-our strik Despite favourable conditio almost one third of members voted for actio We must use this to fig the unions from top bottom for a new leade ship.
OVER three hundred delegates representing
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BY A majority of nearly 2 to 1 the BL workforce has decided to accept a wage deal which will run from now to November 84. and the same next, the right to negotiate has
something the Tories and the employers have Government spokespeople have been say- ing that due to falling inflation and the need to
workers had to get away from the idea of year- In fact the BL deal is a two year wage cut. Not for the first time BL has been used as a stalking horse for a new employers offensive.