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800 AUEW members at Lucas Aerospace, Wolverhampton, have been persuaded by shop stewards and full time officials to accept a formula to return to work this Monday after a 2-month lock-out.

The formula included further talks on a revised bonus scheme.

In the meantime guaranteed bonuses will be paid, and in one month workers will receive £40 as "compensation" for their period locked out.

Clearly management have given virtually nothing away, and workers were not taken in by the bluster of AUEW Divisional Organiser Bill Jordan.

Workers know only too well that the company has already warned it may decide to shut down the factory for good-with the loss of all 1,700 jobs.

With this threat over their heads they know also that their union leaders at plant and district level have done nothing to prepare for a fight against such a move, should the company decide simply to use the next month to complete work in hand and then announce closure.

A campaign must be launched to make Lucas open their books to an elected trade union committee so their plans can be revealed and defensive artion nrenared

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Since 1967 the central plank of British Leyland management policy has been to abolish the right of workers in individual plants to bargain for wages and to introduce corporation wide negotiations. PHOTO: John Sturrock. Report