Ford's Offer Rej
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All Ford factories, with the exception of Southampton, have now rejected the company's offer of a 4½% wage increase on the current annual wage review.
These votes show the developing mood of the working class on the wages issue once a lead is given. The problem is that the leadership have no intention of carrying the fight through.
HEIR APPARENT
Moss Evans (chief negotiator and heir apparent to the Jones' throne JOURNA LISTS' CHARTER a "left" ra nk and file grouping within the National Union of Journalists - has called on its members to launch a campaign for a return to free collective bargaining.
It is to campaign for an end to the social contract and support for chapels which try to win pay agreements outside the 4½% limit.
But the Charter at its annuai meeting in Sheffield on Saturday refused to back a call for a wage claim of at least £15 a week with wage rises to keep pace with inflation to go forward immediately from the NUJ delegates meeting next April.
The Charter also refused to campaign for annual election of next year) is treading a delicate line between supporting the social contract to please Jones and retaining some credibility with the Ford membership where he hopes to get votes.
THROWN OUT
This led him to throw out the claim formulated by the shop stewards as being outside the social contract and to substitute a claim based on the 4% limit. When predictably management offered 42% he avoided recommending acceptance of this and put it back to the members who rejected it. officials, sticking instead to its SoLD ou OUEIE TE DOKT EPS ALVE. MEL PADI MUFRIE:
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