TUESDAY 20 The Leyland Action Committee has produced 4,000 printed calling for all-out strike action in BL By 6.30am they are being handed out the picket lines and receive an entmusiastic response A meeting of BL shop stewards had already been planned to be held today to discuss the company's wage OTECT. There's little Howarde timed the coincide meeting.
The wage offer is 5 per cent with numerous strings, including complete mobility of labour. If it is accepted it would remove all powers from shop stewards.
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Socialist Challenge 29 November 1979 page 4 At the head of the article he was erroneously described as deputy convenor at Rover Solihull. He is in fact deputy senior steward at that plant. We apologise to those who were mislead by who has The will stop Edwardes off.
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Cals there 1s we were At the Rover plant, the senior Today dawns with the Birmingham Evening Mail continuing its support for Edwardes by running a front page story on Derek Robinson's brother continued working. The paper fails to mention that he has said work as soon as Int strike is made official By now 37,000 BL workers are on strike and many thousands more laid The Leyland. Action Committee issues another leaflet calling for an extension of the strike action, and a mass meeting at Longbridge to turn it opposition It also calls for flying pickets to shut down the rest of BL Messages of support are flooding in from all sections of the trade union Len Brindle, vice chairperson of the Combine Committee, narrowly loses a vote for immediate action at his plant in Preston. The lack of clear Combine Committee or the unions nationally is paying dividends for management.
company. taking every opportunity to get its message over It's pay day, and, Ken King - until recently a steward at Longbridge happens when the workers go to collect their money 'All the plant gates were locked and sent to the West works canteen for the pay our "The directors were there giving each and every one of us a load of pamphlets and a pep talk on the BL happy family. They only took in six at a time and the queue stretched a mile or two'down the road.