Ford bosses no-strike agreement

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basis for redundancies-without ing this factor to the full. paying a penny piece above It now falls to the workers 9.5%. on the shop floor to construct Please send me trial sub/six monthalone yest commitment from stewards to allow strikers' jobs to be filled by scab labour from other departments: and they are demanding that stewards enforce the official disputes procedure.

This latest ultimatum from Ford bosses shows their contempt for the feeble gesture by Terry Duffy and the AUEW who gave the company a month's strike notice.

Duffy is not demanding an improvement in the miserable pay offer: nor is he opposed to the vicious attack on union rights and working conditions embodied in the new disciplinary procedures.

He is seeking simply an hour off the 40-hour week-to bring Ford into line with the 39hour week due to be introduced by the engineering employers next autumn.

But the reticence of other union leaders in the Ford pay claim almost makes Duffy look like a militant. Ron Todd, TGWU national organiser, has talked of a trade-off involving increased productivity in exchange for an improved offer.

But Ford have now made it clear that they are intent on forcing through an increase in productivity-thus laying the Management know that union bureaucrats like Todd are as hostile as they are to unofficial strikes over which they have little control. They are exploitPRESS Trial sub (U Six issues.

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