The £162 million Chrysler deal is the Wilson Government's latest attack on the right to work of all workers. Wilson's Detroit contract is simple and deadly: 1. Ricardo and the Chrysler Corporon auree to take or the sausa trade unions with a massive programme of 8,000 redundancies and speed-up within Chrysler UK. 2. In return for public money, Wilson gets the continued co-operation of the trade union "leaders". as policemen for the £6 limit and worse to come. Labour Government backing is given to a progRyton plants have rejected the deal and threatened occupation, the senior stewards seem willing to drop the fight for all jobs if voluntary redundancies, short-time working and improved severance payments are agreed to. Resolutions along these lines were put to and accepted by mass meetings at both the Stoke and Ryton plants in Coventry just before Christmas.
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But voluntary redundancies split the workforce now and give Chrysler a free hand later. This is precisely what has happened in British Leyland, where the collaball car workers on the basis of try.
istration centre has already shown the crazy mismanagement and waste of capitalist car production car plant should elect committees pany's books in order to prepare a workers' plan for nationalisation nationalisation of the whole indusThe document on the Chrysler crisis produced by TASS members at the Whitley research and adminand proved the need for nationalisation. Now in place of phoney participation schemes, workers in every to fight for the opening of the comand production which defends jobs. car.