Crackdown Fords
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Line workers from the Phase 2 heavy truck assem-. bly area at Ford's Langley Plant walked out last Wednesday over the sacking of a colleague on a trumped up charge of "not declaring a hernia condition" when he joined the company nearly a year ago.
The sacking was the fourth in a week at the plant and represents an international 'get tough' policy by Fords management.
Three weeks ago six leading militants in Denmark were sacked by the company for hosting last year's 'International Combine' meeting; and as we go to press there are unconfirmed reports of a steward- being sacked at the Southampton plant.
At Langley, stewards represUNION DUES for a series of one-day strikes until the threat of steel lay-offs was over.
While the possibility of layoffs at 80% pay needed serious consideration, a Socialist Press supporter argued for immediate indefinite strike action as the only effective way to win ieinstatement.
A vote split the meeting, with a narrow majority for indefinite action. In all 100 out of 130 line workers on the section are out and the company has lost £1 million in The shop stewards committee has called for official recognition of the strike, prevented any manning up of the Phase 2 section, and called for reinstatement.
There is strong support throughout the Plant which has pushed the convenor and TGWU officials into pasșive support.
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SOCIALIST /hat the Lord ruling means Lord Scarman: Is it a necessary implication of your submission that Parliament by this section has made a general strike unlawful?
Counsel (for private steel firms): I would say that acts, the abject of whick was not to set up a chain of trade or commercial consequences but to bring pressure to bear on the government of the day to alter its economic policy might. not qualify as acts in furtherance of a trade dispute.
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