Massey ay-offs
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in order to force workers into arguing for gang-cuts in order to maintain their bonus.
This is because there are only two ways the bonus can MEWES they accepted they accepted I.E. manning levels, would achieve the levels, would same bonus as c same bonus as direct workers.
And, to ensure that it is And, to ens completely out of the control of the shop floor, the bonus would be worked out on a monthly basis.
Stewards at Cowley calculated that in one typical month the "bonus" they would have received in exchange for accepting all these attacks by management would have amounted to a princely 25p per week!
The whole scheme 1S designed to follow up 'participation', in which whole sections of convenors have been transformed into Massey-Ferguson has released its long awaited statement on the future of production at its Banner Lane, Coventry plant.
There will be i almost complete lay-off of production workers for two weeks from April 24.
In June there will be layoffs for one day a week and a two day stoppage in July.
As we reported in last week's Socialist Press the production cuts at Banner Lane have affected jobs at Birmid Qualcast, Warley and led to short-time working at Sterling Metals, Nuneaton.
The Nuneaton firm has followed the MasseyFerguson statement with the announcement of a two-week lay-off of its own.
Workers at these factories must fight now for the policy of opening the company books as part of the fight for work sharing on full pay.
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