Luton reject plan

Workers Press no. 28, 5 November 1969 · scan page 2

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MANY OF Vauxhall's 10,000 laid-off workers at Luton and Dunstable have been recalled to work today, but continuing shop-floor opposition to the company's pay and productivity proposals makes it extremely unlikely that full production can be resumed by the end of the A number of trade union branches, including Ford workers, dockers, postmen and engineers, were represented on the demonstration, together with a contingent of architecture students from a nearby college. Bow, and William Walsham, John Ford and Leonard White of Poplar, are only the first of large numbers of tenants the GLC intends to evict if the court grants eviction orders.

ONDI GUILDIN TRADI WORKE SAY NO VICTIO weok, as has been claimed.

Engineering union shop stewards at Luton have now joined those at Ellesmere Port in opposing their national executive's instructions to accept the The four rebels, Terence Connolly of deal.

They have called a mass meeting of their members for Friday.

Although the union's Ellesmere Port members have now been recalled to work, the dispute over press shop pay is still going on.

Operators are refusing to set their presses unless paid a setter's rate and there is little rospect of normal productior eing achieved until their de. mands are met.

MORE TALKS Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers executive councilman Arthur Hearsey has called for further talks with the management this week.

National Union of Vehicle Builders members are still laid off from the Merseyside plant. - stir opposition To the company's productivity proposals remains as firm as ever.

Even if assernbly is started at Luton, Vauxhall is still by no means certain of maintaining a sufficient supply of axles and gearboxes from Ellesmere Port.

Despite overwhelming vote against the productivity deal by the Luton AEF stewards, the union's district committee was circulating a letter at the weekend insisting:

'The present round of negotiations are finished. No useful purpose can be served in prolonging a situation that cannot be altered.' 'ACCEPTED' District secretary Arthur Sjojren has instructed stewards not to call a meeting on Friday on the grounds that the deal has already been accepted by the union's leaders.