Passes problem facing Lucas-CAV
By David Maude
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THE JOSEPH LUCAS combine will today face a new problem at its Fazakerley site in Liverpool, where CAV workers have been on sit-in strike for almost 16 weeks.
Workers at Lucas Industrial Equipment, a smaller factory which shares the Fazakerley site with CAV, are to go into work using passes issued by the CAV occupation committee. If, as expected, management fails to turn up, they will work in.
LIE workers were laid off 12 weeks ago after the occupation committee decided to ban all movement of supplies on and off the site.
In fact the lay-off took place about , a week earlier than it should have done. Lucas's sent the 350 workers home after instructing foremen not to accept the occupation committee passes.
Eleven days ago a CAV mass meeting agreed to allow the free movement of supplies again, in order to make clear it was not they who were denying LIE workers their jobs.
But the sit-in strikers decided to keep up the pass system, and to retain control of on-site services, such as the boilerhouse. The combine stubbornly insisted that both be given up.
On Friday a LIE mass meeting voted to accept the passes and yesterday maintenance workers went in to make ready for the return.
It is believed that there are enough materials in the factory to provide work for about a