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the multinational tractor firm, is to sack a further 740 workers in Britain, over and above the 500 jobs lost in the last year.
The bulk of the jobs lost will be in the firm's Doncaster plant.
The worldwide drop in tractor sales - reflected in the 25% slump'in sales in Britain -is one factor in the cutback.
Another is the financial plight of the American parent firm, which, after provoking and eventually conceding to the longest-ever strike by members of the United Auto Workers union, has recorded a loss of over £200 million in the first six months of 1980.
Yet again, the problems created by the employers themselves and their anarchic system are being foisted onto the worktorce, in the form ot mass redundancies.
It is ironic that at a time of mounting world hunger and starvation giant tractor firms are slashing production and laying off workers: only a socialist planned economy can offer an alternative to such insanity.
Workers at the Doncaster plant should be demanding a programme of work sharing on full pay, and calling for access to the books of Harvesters to show the need for it to be nationalised without compensation, under workers' management.
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