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Socialist Press no. 123, 1 November 1978 · scan p. 1 · about 123 words

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Even as Fords' latest offer reached more than double the government's pay limit, the dangers of so-called "phony" productivity deals are looming larger than ever.

At Vauxhall's Luton and Dunstable plants, management talk of possible 'easy money' through a productivity deal combined with weak leadership, the prospect of a long strike like at Fords and a vague pay claim to produce a mass meeting defeat for a strike call.

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And in British Leyland management have gone one step further, and centred their whole pay offer on "self-financing" "parity' payments, which The sabotage of the hospital works supervisors' pay struggle by TUC bureaucrats including Len Murray will CENTRE PAGI Owen in Namibia betrayal. Trotsky's assassin dies. Price control fraud

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 123, 1 November 1978