Leyland Workers Reject Bonus Fraud

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SOME MEMBERS ABOUT HOW UNION NEGOTLATORS OUGHT ment's incentive scheme reflects bitterness on the shop floor.

The voting was 46,1 21,759.

Management and the capitalist press are doing everything they can to underplay this vote because there are no advantages in a bonus scheme if the work-force is hostile to it.

Having said in the run-up to the ballot that the vote was expected to go in favour, they now say it was expected to go against.

Leyland management is highly skilled and have become particularly adept at using the senior stewards to help them achieve their policies.

All the talk of the result being 'expected' means that they are now thinking of ways of rehashing the scheme and having another ballot.

This technique they have learnt from their experience with the Security of Earnings' document which was unanimously rejected by the workforce and then one year later brought in, slightly changed, through a ballot.

So the management are busy planning their next workers comes out clearly.

Aspects None of the senior stewards opposed incentive schemes on principle as creators of unemployment.

They only oppose certain aspects of the scheme.

None of them is leading any struggle against speed-up now taking place in their own plants.

It was workers on the shop floor, and not the senior stewards that produced the rejection of the incentives. The way the senior stewards argued for rejection only helped the company.

P'VE RECENTLY HEARD A LOT OF IDLE GOSSIP FROM TO BE ANSWERABLE TO THE SHOPFLOORWHAT STUFF AND NONSENSE! FOR EXAMPLE, I'M ENDORSING THE BASNETT PLAN FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS -WE CLEVERLY OUTMANOUVRE HEM-™I AND DEVASTATE THEIR ARG IMENTS CRE (HOSPITAL PLAN corporate ballot, accepting the principle of corporate as opposed to plant decisions.

There is no doubt that the company will utilise this at a later stage.

So the struggle in Leyland must continue for a new leadership that fights on principle against incentive schemes and for plants to take their own decisions.

We will be making detailed analysis of the Leyland scheme in our next issue.

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SOCIALIST PRESS The crisis within the so-called 'Euro-communist' parties has sharpened rapidly in the last few weeks.

As these parties move into an ever closer embrace with the capitalist class so open opposition movements have been developing.

This opposition is by no means homogeneous or consistent. In Spain at present it revolves round the largely formal question of whether a party which has not been Leninist for over 40 years should continue to call itself 'Leninist' in its statutes.

But the apparent issues are not the real ones. Beneath such questions lies the growing discontent of the working class base of the Stalinist parties of Spain, Italy and France with the systematic class collaboration of the leaderships of those parties which make them every day more openly the pillars of the bourgeois order.

Publicly opposed

The leadership of the Spanish CP, already publicly opposed by the local leaders of the party in Asturias, last week suffered an even more dramatic reverse.

The powerful United Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC-the name the Communist Party uses in Catalonia), which represents one quarter of the CP membership in the whole of Spain, voted decisively against Santiago Carrillo's plan for the coming party congress to abolish all reference to 'Leninism' from the party statutes. 'It is not', • Carrillo declares, 'the Marxism of today'.

In Carrillo's mind it would seem that Francoist premier Adolfo Suarez is closer to 'the Marxism of today' than Lenin.

Last week in a press interview Carrilio, for long a supporter of individuals, others from groups of 2 or 3 comrades. Finally 2 or 3 letters were written in the name of whole cells opposing our policy.

Head to roll?

Most of this opposition is to our policies as a whole. Basically we are finding again the same positions we saw at the time of our 22nd Congress. As a general rule, those who are opposing our policies today are those who opposed them at the 22nd That is also what one sees from reading certain newspapers which specialise in putting these positions...

Before this press conference I was asked 'Is your head going to roll?' I replied 'No; the basket will remain empty'. Undoubtedly there are some who would like to be expelled from the party but there will be no expulsions. The time of expulsions is definitely over for us.

In the same way there are those who would like to challenge the 22nd Congress. That also is completely inadmissible. The 22nd Congress is a definite gain..

It is because there are no tendencies in our party that the debate can develop generally among all communists about the whole policy of our party.

As Oxfordshire schools reopen for the Summer term the occupation of the South Oxford Nursery class enters its fourth week stronger and more developed than its organisers ever considered.

A class of nearly 20 nursery children is being taught by unemployed teachers and helpers and more children are being enrolled daily.

This however must only be a temporary situation.

The occupation campaign is determined in its demand tor the nursery class to be tully financed and run by the County Council's education department with all the jobs filled.

They have taken these demands into the local movement.

The campaign has aimed Our method-categorically not to exclude or sanction anyone at all-doesn't constitute the recognition of tendencies but a considerable advance along our party's road to democratic life. I repeat: on this point we wish to move ceaselessly forward"'.

As in Spain, the CP opposition in France is composed of several diverse elements. None of them at It has pressed the local leaderships of these three unions to join a deputation to the County Council with the occupation committee.

However on the other hand, the NUT only three months ago concluded lengthy sell-out negotiations on the question of the cuts, and NUPE and NALGO have just signed extensive redeployment and early retirement schemes. present represent clear principled break from the class collaboration of the Stalinist But the crises attest to the growing realisation by the working class of the disastrous consequences of this class collaboration. They create unprecedented opportunities to win CP militants to Trotskyism and the Transitional Programme.

To join deputation would have raised the question of re-opening these negotiations and reopening the floodgates of dissatisfaction from their members.

John Power, celebrated right wing witch-hunting President of Oxford and District Trades Council saved the day for the NUT, NUPE and NALGO leaders.

He amended the triple While TUC leaders and 'left' Labour MPs continue to shed crocodile tears about unemployment, employers last week proceeded with their efforts to stoke it up.

Certain that the union bureaucracy will organise no resistance, they confidently announced plans to slash another 13,411 jobs.

*536 jobs are to be lost in rationalisation moves by the Tootal textile firm.

*350 jobs are to go in the closure of a Decca colour TV plant in Willenhall.

*2,200 jobs are threatened in the decision by the Thorn combine to shut plants in Bradford.

*125 redundancies are scheduled in Sunderland shipbuilders.

*2,200 steelworkers in Ebbw Vale face a planned early closure of their workplace.

*8,000 workers face redun. dancy with the decision of Spillers to puli out of the bread baking business.

These major cutbacks come on top of the countless individual jobs lost through "natural wastage" each week as union leaders up and down the country collaborate with employers' attempts to speed up production in every industry.

Declining workforce

Indeed a new report by city stockbrokers Wood MacKenzie points out that productivity is likely to grow 3.5% this year with a static or declining worktorce.

North Sea Oil, which produces no jobs, will increase productivity by 1%.

Cuts in employment in the "unproductive" service industries will improve productivity. And savage reductions in manning levels and "overcapacity" in steel and the car industry, coupled to speed-up are also major factors.

TUC leaders are tacitly relied upon in the report to assist the bosses in jacking up productivity in manufacturing industry by 4% this year and next, without additional employment.

Phase 4

And a fall in employment the service sector is expected , aise productivity by 2%.

In case anyone believes that these conscious efforts to inflict the burden of the crisis of British capitalism onto the backs of union delegation to a general Trades Council delegation, of a serious move to pressure the council by three unions which could have been backed up by industrial action.

Campaign supporters must ensure that pressure is kept up on these bureaucrats in Stamp of conomic Crisis and the Way Fo for Youth SUNDAY 7 MAY at 2.00 Lecture Room 2 Digbeth Civic Hall workers will be compensated b' an end to wage controls, Healey i already talking of a Phase • embodying a repeat of the 12 month rule coupled to a lowe. rise in average earnings than the current 10%.

So as Healey puts the finishin! touches to another Lib-Lal budget-grandly giving workers pittance in tax cuts and a toke! hand-out for the latest specia "job-creation" gimmick-now is good time to get an assessment o the devastation in workers' livin standards brought about by th treachery of their trade union an political leaders.

Indeed it is certain that th this week as Labour left: continue to tramp loyally int the Lib-Lab coalition lobby t support another Healey budget.

Labour Party members an union branches must demand tha their MPs vote against this budge and struggle to break the ant socialist coalition deal with tr Liberals.

But there is little chance thi the 'lefts' will set aside a lifetim of spinelessness to wage any figr at this stage.

The struggle to reverse the attacks can only succeed if centres on a complete rejection : ali forms of class collaboratic and the construction of a reve utionary leadership within ti workers' movement.

*Break the Lib-Lab coalition *Defend all jobs-occupatio must demand work sharing on fi pay.

*Open the books of employe threatening sackings or closure Fight for nationalisation und workers management.

*Stop the cuts! Strike acti to demand restoration of pub services protected by a slidi scale of spending.

*A programme of pub works under workers manag leme to create new jobs.

*For a planned, scial the unions and in the Labc Party by raising resolutic demanding the reopening and Labour Party wards.

be sent up to union Divisio committees es and Labc Party General Manageme Committees.

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