Heads high as Cowley returns
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selling out the struggles of BL workers in recent years Both management and union bureaucrats so they're pretty skillful at it by now. taken by surprise at the strength of feeling But the recent sell-out of the "washing up time" militancy of the strikers and it took Terry I strike at Cowley did not result in the usual demoral- (AUEW) and Moss Evans (TGWU) 4½ weeks 1 The strike received massive support in the BL Assembly Plant in Cowley for one simple reason. One new element in the situation in Cowley is the The workers had had enough of being pushed around large number of young workers in the plant. With by an arrogant, dictatorial management year in, year new investment in the Maestro car, BL have been out. Basic agreements on working conditions have taking on labour. So, for many young workers this been torn up by the management and the unions have was their first taste of battle. And although their leaders turned them round and led them away when The decision of management to deprive workers of the battle was in full cry, they don't feel bowed or six minutes a day washing up time was not the most serious erosion of working conditions inflicted on the Keep on Cowley. These militant workers workforce but it was the last straw. The workers could be the news sooner than you think. London London E2. isation of the workforce. been told to like it or lump it.
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