'ASK MY secretary, she tells me | am on the board of 99 companies canna naure in me current dis nute 31 ine kuder owen olant in Darlaston, Staffordshire.
Sir Alfred played an active part in the dispute. In fact, Ends been oedo Ton neany we •fair play for the bosses -son John to pay to charity the 16.000 due to electricians as payment for time ost Meanwhile the Rubery management's drive for a no-strike guarance as mne basis for tne tutUre existence one mousana oos all Darlaston still continues. It may be a family firm ality will not hold back Sir Almenting ineir inreat, even tough the closure of Rubery Owen would turn Darlaston (population 30,000) into Dole Town.
OFFENSIVE in order to remain comoeutive the plant requires a massive injection of new capital.
with the general feeling employine Class, are not orepared to make sucn a commitment oren knees offensive started under the banner of the switch trom piece rates to tixed rates with notional incentive payof the workers at Darlaston succococo in retamine une piece work basis tor neir wage. anorinus cushioned themselves from the restrictions of the pay policy retuation which has produced dil.
ferentials of between £10 and £12 for the same type of work.
The current dispute arises from by electricians for back Pay lost when uney were did our th me course or a inree week strike by maintenance engineers in Novthat there was no reason to send them unere Was "olenty maintenance and installation work to be done.
Bed the the lee sion i nated in the intervention Len Murray and a meeting at the TUC concitions olackman from the management. As Murray trated their minds' - to the extent unar une union reoresentatives de reed то таке back ine спагну рау ment offer.
UNIFYING LEN MURRAY - said that the threat of closure 'concentrated the minds or Hubery Owen trade union representatives. so dia ne.
The demand for the nationalisa. tion of the whole car and compoworkers control is an objective for WHICH di mutants in me car inoustry can campaign, as against the project of run-down and speed-up demanded by management.
In 1967 Sir Alfred Owen was successfully appeal workers at the Darlaston gates not gon Homela Stune strikes inis vear at ine olant snow that illusions of this sort have well and truly been knocked on head.
But the fight for the realisation or an aternauve to ine sir Aireds and Sons of this world will need a much bigger leap and a fight to new eadership industry.