Skill men meet
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A mass meeting all skilled workers in the Cowley Body Plant with the exception of the AUEW members, last week decided to send delegates to the meeting of skilled men's stewards called by the toolroom committee in Birmingham for 10 March.
When 'one. member attempted to mandate these delegates to put down a resolution in favour of immediate strike action Roy Fraser argued against them being , mandated and so the resolution wasn't put.
Meanwhile the clerical workers in the plant have voted at a mass meeting for the officials' . recommendation that they accept a new corporate grading structure.
This structure will give wages varying between £3632 and £7986 per annum.
This is about f4 per head extra. But it entails acceptance of job evaluation and "coverage of all jobs up to and including own level where circumstances require it." This means complete mobility of labour and goes alongside a number of other agreements to accept new technology.
The whole exercise itself is related to the achievement of exactly the same cars per person level as the manual workers within Leyland and will only be paid if this is achieved.
THE BODY BEING SET UP to decide whether local government and hospital workers are worth more has already got a real problem.
The chairman will be on a salary of £18,000. So his jab will be to decide whether he is worth six nurses - or MORE than six nurses /