COUC are maintain profits in he cris ride INTERNATIONAL den car inous nas no mus There are now nanoline castines AnG accorolne to a published report sponsored by the titled 'Motor Industry in JUSt TWO ting together boxes to mileometers.
use of these robots is just another companies process easier interests of profit The IWC report firmly situates redundancies, manning levels increases m labour speed-ups of flow line and nonshop inevitable by brouble intemanional search for tiew markets and more multinationals comprofits The irrationality of the capitalist economy 1s inis redon ine mms are nerpiess in the grip of the market. For each introduction of each volume cars M700U neusta use throughout the like paint welding and waste of Contrast this with million Workers' Control search Crisis, in its new assemolies different plants attempte work to control. in ine Ine iratonduly market kamner man using developments in technology attacks plant moDHity car assemol plants undermine the workforce operationso linked up with the Labour each and every massive new overcapacity with the strategy for the new model in capacity between 60 per cent and 70 per This represents an immense manpower The report £580 spent ov toros ana consondale lay developments alone Son or yar From 17, 400, ment at all levels, both national and Westerr EuTechnological innovations - a the expense of working conditions are another aspect of of the capitalist process and monotony of repetitive work in the - under capitahem inev mere become anome! method in the hands of the bosses for increasing the exploitation of The struggles at British Leyland today are a clear confirmation o the determination o empovers lo turn investment into profitability management ment and the trade union bureau attemot by inE defend themselves unfulfilled. equate simply to note the dangers kind of alternative confronting the labour movement. vnat is recurred is a strategy 1o workers control over the industry does positive demands for trade union democracy and the need to extend lay-offs.
membership to meet speed-up proposals -contor or ine race union move Gang to ensure bians or me bosses the accountability of all officials indus inad melves do not prove an rank and file'. But these demands force is the kind of struggle that The report fails to point in the direction of the type of measures put forward work snaring wit. no loss or pa in the tace or reduneancies ant increased staffing levels opening the books to reveal the The hionto oven me dosses to the plans and accounts to the work NOW. IF I CAN ONLY GET MY RIGHT FOOT PRODUCTIVE..
important basis could vice dr in revea ine nature Ryder's plans. It is also one wric points the , forward for the struggle for workers' control of the industry.
* The Report is available from Jim Shutt, c/o Coventry Work shop, 40 Binley Road, Coventry
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