LEYLAND DEAL CAUSES ANXIETY

Workers Press no. 689, 15 February 1972 · scan page 12

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BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT UNION leaders are close to signing an agreement with British-Leyland which could threaten the strength of shop stewards' organization throughout the engineering Even senior stewards have not yet been given copies of the 24-page draft document prepared by Leyland labour-relations director Pat Lowry.

With just over a week to go before the deal is due to be concluded, some of the terms that are known are causing great anxiety in the combine.

The agreement is supposed to be a single-company disputes procedure to replace the 50-yearold York Memorandum, which is now scrapped. But both sides see it as a pacesetter for a much wider arrangement.

Hugh Scanion, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, discussed the Lowry proposals with a small group of senior stewards York last week. Yesterday's 'Morning Star' reported that they were 'well pleased'.

That is just not the case.

Workers at a number of plants have already been warned that the deal could cut the number of stewards, give the company partial control over their electoral constituencies and lead to the establishment of compulsory works committees.

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