Pation Pits?
Socialist Press1976 1976-11-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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THE NUM HAS DROPPED ITS proposals for management of pits to be elected on a 'one man one vote' principle at each pit - which would have led to workers at the pit controlling who was and who was not a manager.
This, whilst not workers control, ATTTAA Malar (which would take the form of an elected Trade Union committee in contro of the managers and all their decisions; the ability to hire and fire, as well as access to the books) would still be a challenge to the old management.
The NUM leadership has now taken this feeling for workers control and channelled it into committees, very like participation committees, in which the management together with the overseers would have a majority and which would have anyway no control over the managers - only dealing with minor decisions as to which new machinery to purchase.
The government is, of course, in favour of similar bodies throughout the nationalised industries, as well as 'workers on the board' in private industries.
What they are aiming at is more and more integration of the trade unions into management requirements, on the model of the subservience of union leaders in Leyland's
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