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ment's unilateral "productivity criteria" should be achieved, and the second that the factory concerned should accept the new grades in totality.
Management announced that once the productivity requirement was achieved, (which it now has been in 6 or 7 plants) then they would begin banking the new rates on behalf of each individual worker.
The money would only be paid out once the grading was accepted.
This has meant that as time goes on an increasingly large sum of money is available once the grades are accepted.
UNION DUES in the Cowley Assembly Plant last week, management utilised the summer holiday period to try to stampede workers into accepting the grades.
Workers in varying grades in the plant now have a lump sum of up to £250 to come in back pay.
Local press and radio began announcing that this cash could be in the holiday pay packets if the stewards would get the new grades sorted out.
This produced an immediate reaction. A wave of strikes swept the factory.
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