NUEW steward and branch secretary, Rover Solihull Leyland workers healthy majority of the company's 34 plants have forged alliance the United Craft Organisation (UCO).
It brings together two groups: toolroom workers who struck in 1977, who are mainly members of the AUEW; and HE HECHa and had distinct collective bargaining agreements, members of other unions.
The UCO is demanding:
* The payment of a national agreement to be backdated to its original date of implementation - November 1978.
* A substantial increase — a rise to £120 per week, which is directly comparable highest paid SKet worker employed Alvis in Coventry.
* A reduction in hours to 35 a week.
* Separate bargaining rights tor crall workers across BE through a committee elected by the craft workers themselves. skilled The workers because they and betrayed on the one hand, yet confident through emerging movement on the other.
Bewildered, because they -like all BL carworkers -promises skilled increases through parity and on the basic rates via the national agreement. are Betrayed, because in plants that have enjoyed the hard-won right through a toolroom or craft agreement, giving them direct
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