Skilled workers to meet

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The new Leyland Craft Committee, with delegates from 15 factories is holding a further meeting for all Leyland skilled stewards or Saturday March 31 in Birmingham.

According to Roy Fraser, the AUEW convenor at the Cowley Body Plant the resolution the committee will put to the meeting is for strike action from April 6.

This is after the company has finally agreed to pay the nationally negotiated premium rates, but yet again come up with productivity strings before parity payments are made.

This particularly affects the skilled men, who know which grade they will be on-the top grade-and therefore know how much a week they are losing. In Cowley, for example, it is £10 a week.

The company has offered to pay the parity if either all of Leyland achieves the production figures the company wants for four consecutive weeks or if an individual plant achieves them for eight consecutive weeks.

Even the right wing dominated National Joint Negotiating Committee put this back to the company.

The other conditions for making the parity payments is agreement by everybody on the new five grade structure which is so contentious that some plants have still not even formed the committees to slot each group into its grade. This bound to produce disputes.

UNION DUES focus for action-were also affected as NGA chapels obeyed their executive's instruction.

Blacking was applied to all those firms which refused to withdraw their advertising from the Nottingham Evening Poste a list of a dozen firms including Trust Houses Forte and Boots. funds or imprison offficers of the union must be met with an all-out strike to uphold the rights of workers to take action. . NGA chapels • must take matters into their own hands by refusing to call off the blacking and by calling on journalists and other printers for support.