Smash Social Contract
Socialist Press1980 1980-12-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Longbridge workers on the march against now their Stalinist leaders are selling out to the Tories 20037 the Contract:
reject any attempt by the management to "turn the negotiations towards bonus payment"-as had been the case last year.
Everyone, he said, must be very firm on this point.
The JNC later endorsed the Combine Committee policy and presented it to BL management who responded with an offer of Even at that stage the seeds of the sell-out were there.
The JNC decided against rejecting the offer and adjourned for three weeks to consider it!
Confed Most BL workers would nave considered three minutes as too long to consider it, but the JNC had a motive.
They reported back to the shop stewards in the various plants that the decision was "tortiral" Within three weeks they said, the Confed would have an offer from the employers for the engineering industry which they anticipated would be more than 6.2%. They could then press for the same.
In the Cowley Assembly Plant the shop stewards decided that the mass of the members must be involved at every stage if the claim was to be seriously proposed.
A mass meeting was called which unanimously voted for rejection of the 6.2% offer and to pursue the full claim.
In mid October Duffy settled for 8.2% on the minimum rates for the Confed claim.
Promptly the BL JNC met management, expecting a similar
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