BL pay offer!

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Bringing together recent material published in Socialist Press, this new pamphlet details the crisis in BL, the collaboration of the union leadership with Edwardes on the future of BL and explains how BL management are manoeuvring on this year's pay Price 42p including p&p from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX.

Ceballl AT THE TOP. WELL THE TORIES HAVE MANAGED TO IGNORE OUR BRIGHTON DEMO. THEY WON'T LISTEN TO REASON, 50.. A POLICY FOR ® BL WORKERS STUC ...IT'S TIME FOR A REAL CONFRONTATION - C'MON LADS, GRAB YOUR. BROLLIES, WE'RE OFF TO DOWNING STREET!)

..SO ON BEHALF OF THE BROTHERS HERE, AND IF IT PLEASES YOU, YOUR HIGHNESS, MOST GRACIOUS LEADER OF OUR PEOPLE, WE BESEECH YOU TO BE NICE AND KIND TO YOUR MOST LOYAL SUBJECTS -SAVE OUR BRITISH ECONOMY: KICK OUT THE FOREIGN RUBBISH AND MAKE BRITAIN GREAT, OR ELSE At talks between Leyland management and the National Joint Negotiating Committee, the company made a "final offer" of 6.8% and 8.2% on overtime and shift premiums.

This means a further 60p on top of the £5.40 offer to production workers.

The offer is extremely contentious to a workforce that has received only 5% at each of the last two wage reviews.

This means a total of only 16.8% over three years.

An indication of the feeling on BL wages was given last week when a mass meeting at the Cowley Assembly Plant and a stewards' meeting at the Body Plant both voted unanimously to reject the original 6.1% offer.

Even the highly bureaucratic JNC has rejected the new offer, and have called a senior stewards meeting next Monday to consider what to do.

But this is only four days away from the settlement date, meaning that mass meetings to take action-if they are called! -will only be a day or so before that date.

The most important question will be the position taken by the union leaderships.

If they leave the decision up to individual plants instead of calling out all BL workersor if they call only limited action-then they know this to be a recipe for defeat.

The opportunities are there to link up with miners, water workers and others whose review date is in November.

END Jan- ENOUGH • AND SO, AFTER 1% YEARS OF "INDECISION" THE LEADERS OF THE PROLETARIAT ARE ON HOLD IT THEREOR ELSE WHAT? — ARE YOU THREATENING TO BOOT US OUT?

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THE MARCH- THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH! IT'S NOT ON!!!