Differential dead-end
Socialist Press1977 1977-11-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Another attempt to avoid confrontation with the pay laws failed when skilled workers at Vauxhall's Luton and Dunstable factories, whose three-week strike had stopped much of Vauxhall's production, returned to work last week.
Their claim had centred not on a perspective 0f regaining and defending living standards cut by wage controls, but on the narrow concept of restoring differentials.
The settlement made a gesture in this direction-but only at a price. Management agreed to grant a 3.46% supplement to skilled men, in return for improved productivity.
35 ASTMS foremen who imposed an official work to rule and overtime ban at the Osborn Hadfield factory in Sheffield, stepped up their action last Tuesday with the first lightning strike.
Last Friday management backed down and made a £6 offer to the foremen which was accepted-in breach of the 12-month rule.
TASS members, who have been imposing similar sanctions in pursuit of their pay claim, were locked out for refusing to do foremen's work, and staged a ½½-day protest strike.
Their pay remains be settled.
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12~month rule broken