B-Leyland chief makes new threats

Workers Press no. 324, 10 December 1970 · scan page 2

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Cleaners picket against sackings A CRUCIAL stage will be reached tomorrow in British-Leyland motorworkers' fight to defend their wages, conditions and trade union NIGHT cleaners yesterday asked the company for evening picketed the Board recognition. of Trade's central London Non-unionized evening Companies House against workers have been sent to the sacking of ten colleagues replace them. by their employers, the They have appealed for Strand Cleaning Company. funds as there has not been The sacked women have up before the sackings. been recruiting large num- Donations can be sent to: bers of cleaners into the May Hobbs, T& GWU Transport and General Cleaners' Action Group, 13 Workers' Union, and have Middle Lane, Hornsey, N8.

National officials of four car-industry unions will meet company representatives at York to discuss proposals to introduce Measured-Day Work into the combine's Cowley, Oxford, Morris Motors enough time to build these assembly plant.

While these officials are known to have been in secret discussions with top Leyland management about its payand-procedure plans, shopfloor opposition to MDW has hardened in both Morris's and its linked Pressed-Steel Fisher (PSF) plant in Oxford.

The company is anxious to break up this unity of purpose.

In what stewards feel is yet another breach of established procedure, it has gone over the heads of the unions with an ultimatum warning PSF workers that their jobs are far from secure unless the scheme is accepted.

The MDW proposals for PSF do not come up for discussion at York until next month.