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A further £50 cash payment was added, which would be paid оле month after going back.
Duffy argued that a return to work would be conditional upon management agreeing to negotiate immediately on a new bonus system.
The original claim for an increase on the bonus of £5 clearly could have been won.
Neither the media's attempts to whip up "We want to work" demonstrations against the toolmakers, nor Leyland management's attempts to fly in alternative components from abroad succeeded.
Those women production workers who lobbied AUEW officials went away declaring their agreement with the toolmakers' claim. And the alternative supplies had not prevented 20,000 Leyland workers from being laid off with production of over half of Leyland's models lying idle.
A total shutdown within a week was a certainty. But whereas these efforts failed, the AUEW bureaucracy succeeded in ending the strike.
The sell-out was prepared behind che scenes at Blackpool at joint management-union talks involving Scanlon and his right-wing ally and would-be successor, Duffy.
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regain and defend living standards.
Healey's 10% limit.
inflation through cost-of-living clauses.
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