Open Jags Books!
Socialist Press1976 1976-08-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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Paintshop workers at Jaguar's Brown Lane, Coventry plant are now demanding a public enquiry into the decision to 'site the new paintshop in Birmingham rather than Coventry.
At present the paintshop workers are banning overtime and have threatened to step up action on September 1st if the enquiry demand is not met.
A meeting this week will decide whether to impose an all-out strike or guerrilla stoppages.
Leyland management claims that because the original decision to site the paintshop in Coventry was made before Ryder the decision no longer counts. senior shop steward David Holloway is quoted in the Coventry Evening Telegraph as saying:
"We told Mr Whittaker that, # he disowned decisions made by previous Leyland management, we saw no reason why future manage. ment would not disown any assurances he gave to us.
Holloway is absolutely right -but while he directs attention simply towards a 'public enquiry' he does nothing • to cut across management's ability to change plans, or tell the usual lies about the "needs of the company'.
The stewards and locai MPs say they are worried about the future of Jaguars in Coventry. The key demand must therefore be for the opening of Leyland's books to actahlich the frill none they have