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The struggle for Leyland workers goes on despite the 6.8% sell-out by their At Longbridge, workers making seats for the Metro trimshop have been resisting the company's speed-up. They have refused to produce the increased workloads.

The company has retaliated by contracting out some of their work. It is the blacking of this work that led the company to lay off 500 Metro workers.

This lay-off produced an angry demonstration last Friday.

As we go to press on Monday the laid-off workers are picketing the plant and 7,000 Metros are tied up by dispute.

A meeting of 200 stewards at the plant have voted to back the seat-workers with strike action if necessary.

, Democratise Meanwhile in the Cowley Assembly Plant a mass meeting last Friday unanimously supported the demand for democratisation of the BL negotiating structure.

The proposals advocated by Cowley stewards would mean proportional representation and accountability of the negotiating bodies-and thus eliminate the stranglehold of craft unions and full-time officials over representatives of manual workers.

The Cowley workers voted to meet again in a month to review progress on this fight.

Meanwhile the Leyland Action Committee is to hold meetings to draw the lessons on Oxford and Birmingham and next week in Coventry.

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