[The true face of BL and its plan…]
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The true face of BL and its plan for its workforce shine through in proposals to close the entire AEC factory, Southall, in the early 1980s and make the 2,500 workers redundant.
The management is calling for 250 redundancies from 3 December.
Total flexibility
In order to increase production with this decrease in workers, plans to make "a fundamental change in working practices" are being put Socialist a detailed situation at issue. forward.
This is to include total flexibility and interchangeability of employees of any grade or pay level; employees doing the work of someone on a lower pay grade; and the movement of workers within departments and from one department to another.
The company also wants a free hand to move work between departments and even plants.
Press will carry report on the AEC in the next