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Socialist Press1976 1976-08-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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Jaguar workers in Coventry have begun a work to rule in defence of the jobs threatened by the decision of British Leyland to build its new paint shop at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, rather than at the Brown Lane plant in Coventry.
DECISION
As they begin this action it has been revealed that the decision to move the paint process was taken by a sub-committee of the Cars Counril - the highest body of mittees of this sort is , a new and sinister development of the Ryder scheme.
JOB OF MANAGEMENT The "participation" bodies are increasingly carrying out the job of management - moving from plant to plant, taking decisions on the jobs of workers and pronouncing on their work effort.
It is 'essential therefore that a struggle in defence of jobs at Jaguar does not just direct in general towards management and MPs but focuses the blame on the craven collaboration of convenors leading stewards and full time union endence of the trade union movement and a complete break from the reactionary "participation" setof Jaguar workers will be only one many sections hit by coming plans for "rationalisation"
Latest move against Leyland workers is the offer in the latest Leyland Mirror (the management rag that indignantly denies it is a "management rag'! for a joint editorial board of management and so-called "employee representatives"
The paper announces that "employee and these same "employee representatives" (the bureaucratised layers of conv enors
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