Narrow win
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At the BLMC Cowley Body Plant the right-wing leadership of the T&GWU received a major blow at their "participation" activities when they narrowly won the vote to continue on any "participation" committees by 31 votes to 23 at a recent meeting of the T&GWU 5/60 Branch.
This followed a smiliar decision by a much larger majority of the T&GWU stewards, but this stewards meeting • had been the first time that "participation" was attacked by a large number of stewards, with seven voting against and with a large number of abstentions.
LEADING FIGURE
The convenor of the plant, Bill ¡pation", ae is chairman of the Cic Council. If this plant, one of the biggest in BLMC pulled out then this would be a blow to the continuation of "participation" nationally.
The two took place because a number of important parts of the factory had pulled out of the "participation" committees. This is a sign that the blackmail of the Ryder report is being rejected more and more on the shop floor.
Many of those arguing the case sch arguments as participationg, is only one way traffic or that nobody is listening. The rightwing are able to swing most of these by saying things will be changed.
But more and more workers and stewards are beginning to see the real meaning of "participation" and connect it up with speed-up, lack of democracy in the unions and the attack on living standards through state control of wages.