Power not restored
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Service Division in Cowley remains victimised.
Leyland management sacked him nearly a month ago for alleged overdrawing of expenses for meetings of Leyland's new National Negotiating Committee.
Just over two weeks later they changed this to suspension on full pay.
if Power is eventually sacked it will be an important victory for management and set the scene for a new attack on conditions and agreements particularly in the Service Division.
A "final appeal" hearing was heard by management last Friday. It was adjourned at the request of management to be reconvened on Thursday of this week. Meanwhile he remains suspended on full pay.
A mass meeting was urged by Power himself not to take strike action, but to wait for the final decision.
It is not known if management made any concessions, more information is to be given to a mass meeting within the service plant as we go to press.
Power has the support of the members. If he is not reinstated this week it is crucial that strike action is taken in his defence.
Management must not be allowed to play for time until his support weakens The demands by management for MDW are part of an all-out attack on the shop floor.
Workers should fight now for the opening of the company books as important weapon in the coming struggles to defend wages, conditions and jobs.
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John Power, the AUEW convenor of British Leyland's