Secret Deals
Socialist Press1976 1976-12-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 9 →
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WULAGIS wIll committee is a clear and sad Unfortunately these committees early days about the working of the were from the start dominated by car industry are now being turned reformist leaders - who see their against the workforce as convenors function only as one of looking for scramble to give joint managementhow "their" firm can be made union "participation" committees becomes a matter of absolute necessity.
To establish this control workers need knowledge - knowledge which starts with their own firm and how it functions in its own sector of industry, its separate plants and how they are related, it's customers, its suppliers, its financial backers - and widening of workers in related othet sections NOT NEW This is not a new problem. Even in the years of boom from 19481968 employers would play off one plant against another by transfering work or by keeping wage differentials for similar work.
Many workers responded to this by forming combine committees to impose a measure of control over the movement of work or over wage rates throughout the combine.
The first steps in this direction involved farmina s unriara, anm of how the combine functioned.
The British Leyland combine →-ma seu idade e The knowledge gained in the