Bl Pay Fraud
Socialist Press1978 1978-10-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Workers in British Leyland and in other sections of industry may well have been confused last week by misleading reports that the British Leyland Combine Committee had submitted a corporation wide wage claim for BL car workers.
There was much press talk of a £100 per week claim being lodged-but the reality was very different.
There will be no national level pay settlement in Leyland this: year-negotiations are to take place at plant level only.
And only the two main Cowley plants, the Assembly Plant and the Body Plant, have so far submitted claims for the review. cue for November i Far from amounting to a claim on behalf of all BL car workers, the Combine resolution amounts to little more than an admission that claims have not been submitted by right wing and Stalinist-led stewards committees throughout the majority of Leyland's car division.
The £100 per week "claim" and the calls for a 35-hour week are no more than recommendations to stewards committees which have not even yet met to consider a review now less than three weeks away!
Claims
Workers in every BL plant must ensure that their leaders follow the example given by Cowley and immediate!! submit plant ari celer
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