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be increased. Either production is increased-at a time where declining world markets are the rule-or by cutting the number of man hours, through gang cuts, which reduce the number of jobs.

Consultative The proposed Leyland scheme would operate on a plant basis-thus ensuring that only plant convenors and not individual sections have any control.

But even convenors would only have a consultative role, since none of Leyland's decisions could be challenged. All proposals and all monitoring would be in the hands of management alone.

No bonus would be paid for loss of productionwhether this be the fault of the company or trade unions. Whether shortages of components or industrial disputes stop production, Leyland declares that 'bonus cannot be paid unless it is earned", The basis of the scheme would be manning levels arbitrarily decided by Industrial Engineers. This would assert management's complete right to determine manning levels, and weaken the power of shop stewards in cach section.

Monthly basis

The bonuses would be calculated on the relationship between the "allowable" hours agreed by Industrial Engineers and the actual hours paid.

Indirect workers, provided complete and utter management stooges.

Edwardes The incentive scheme would lead these stooges to directly arguing for jobcutting. And at the same time Leyland hope it might ease the pressure on wages among Leyland workers.

Meanwhile, as Socialist Press has repeatedly shown, with or without the bonus scheme, management remain on the offensive on manning levels throughout the combine, with the complete collaboration of convenors.

This is why the rejection of the incentives plan must be followed up by the end of worker participation in Leyland, the • setting up of Open the Books Committees by stewards committees in each plant, the defence of the Speke factory and • all 3,000 jobs and an all-out fight in defence of jobs and conditions in every plant.

2,500 staff from TASS have voted full support and £2,000 for manual workers in dispute with Rolls Royce management in Coventry.

The pay dispute which has led to occupations at the Parkside and Ansty factories is over the annual claim of 10%.

The company have offered Following the imposition of sanctions, Rolls Royce laid off the manual workers who attempted initially to stage work-ins.

This proved impossible without power and the factories are now being occupied on a rota basis.

Heavy picketing at Ansty last Monday led 1700 staff to return home.

On Tuesday of last week, Mr. John James, head of Rolls Royce in Coventry delivered a blistering attack on the workforce.

He claimed that the dispute was not over 0.3% but over the ending of piecework-something the company has been working for over a long period:

"If we fail to get rid of the piecework system in Coventry the alternatives are unthinkable.

This is a wages war which we must win in order for the company to remain viable and remain competitive in a very tough business"

Management are claiming that the 0.3% is being kept back to finance the changeover from the piecework system.

Union leaders responded by arguing that management had suddenly re-introduced discussion on piecework into the negotiations.

Only 350 workers out of several thousand at Parkside remain on piecework.

Workers should resist management attempts to break these remaining sections.

Clearly the fact that these workers are willing to fight for such a small amount shows a high degree of militancy.

This militancy must be directed towards the fight to open the books of Rolls Royce management in order to uncover their long-term plans for making the firm "viable" by increasing the exploitation of the workforce.

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SOCIALIST "KESS, Wednesday 1y April, 1918 PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report 4 The major development in the Garner Steak House strike for union recognition over the last week has centred around Garners Transport & General torkers Union 1373

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Bloomfield, NUR catering section member, then pointed out from the floor that this, as at Grunwicks, meant challenging the law.

He then asked for clarification on where the TGWU stood on the matter.

Nichoison replied, giving tacit support to secondary blacking, and defending the TGWU's record at Grunwick.

The TGWU alone had been prepared to cough up money for the law suit that would follow the blacking of services in that dispute, he claimed.

The strongest contribution of the evening came from a Bouse

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