Recession hits more BL iobs
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Every day brings further announcements of redundancies in British Leyland.
In Rover, Solihull there will be 120 redundancies straight after the two week shutdown, followed by a further 500 after Christmas.
In Swindon, Pressed Steel Fisher management Ia. announced a further 300 redundancies bringing the workforce down to 3,300-and even this is assuming that other workers will move into the press shop to take up jobs created by work on Cowley Body Plant convenor Roche-no stewards' meeting A CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP: RINGING OUT THE OLD, AND IN THE NEW......
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In the Cowley Assembly Plant, where there has been a continuous programme of voluntary redundancies, the company has announced that a further 388 must go.
In the Cowley Body Plant further details of the proposed 1460 redundancies are emerging.
290 of these are staff-of whom 40 have volunteered, creating a strong possibility of compulsory redundancy.
1172 manual workers are scheduled to go by the end of the year. The numbers volunteering (some of whom have already left), are nothing like this figure. • So again it is clear that the company will have to enforce redundancies.
But the TGWU leadership of the plant has not even called a stewards meeting to discuss what to do.
These sackings are only a partial picture. All of these plants are also laid off for an additional week, followed by three and four day a week working, after the present week's holiday.
The Rover plant and the Cowley plants are now working at a mere 20% of capacity.
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The only noise of resistance from national level has come from Ray Grantham of APEX who has threatened strike action against compulsory redundancies.
BL workers must prepare for occupation of their plants against compulsory redundancies or closures and this must be supported by national strike action.