Archive for October, 1970
Archive : Major unions boycott Leyland talks on piecework phase out
By Clifford Webb, Midland Industrial Correspondent The three major motor unions have boycotted talks with British Leyland on a new pay deal designed to phase out controversial, piece work systems at the Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, Oxford. The dispute is threatening production of a new Morris saloon, scheduled for introduction next spring. The ‘Amalgamated [...]
October 30, 1970
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Archive : Leyland shop stewards rebuff move to reform labour relations
By R. W. Shakespeare Plans to reform labour relations in the British Leyland Motor Corporation met with a rebuff yesterday when 200 shop stewards at the Austin-Morris car body plant at Cowley, Oxford. “totally rejected” proposals to replace piecework with a new-payments system . The shop stewards. members of the Transport and Genera! Workers Union [...]
October 26, 1970
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Archive : Leyland labour troubles ease with end of strikes at three plants
British Leyland’s labour troubles eased yesterday with the ending of three strikes that have been hitting production at the company’s Midlands and Scottish plants. At the Austin-Morris factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, 520 engine assemblers who had -been on strike since Friday over a manning dispute, agreed to return to work after a promise of further [...]
October 21, 1970
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Archive : Leyland strikes bring new threat to car production
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland car production is threatened again by an unofficial strike-of engine assembly workers at the company’s Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge, Birmingham. Output of engines for the Mini and medium range models was disrupted yesterday and the management gave a warning that there could be lay-offs among other engine plant and [...]
October 20, 1970
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Archive : Rover car men back to work
Production of strike-hit Rover 2000 and 3500 saloons at Solihull , Warwicks, will be resumed on Monday, and 1,400 laid-off workers recalled, a company spokesman said yesterday. The strike, which was over a pay claim last week, at the firm’s Acock’s Green, Birmingham, factory, was resolved yesterday and their 450 laid-off workers were recalled.
October 16, 1970
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Archive : Drivers at Rover engine plant return to work
By R. W. Shakespeare Internal truck drivers at British Leyland’s Rover engines plant, at Acocks Green, Birmingham. have decided to call off their second unofficial strike in eight days and return to work this morning. It is. however, unlikely that production of the company’s two top selling cars, the Rover 2000 and 3500. at the [...]
October 15, 1970
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Archive : Union ‘fines’ men who work too hard
DAILY MIRROR By Paul Connew Workers at a giant car factory are being “fined” by shop stewards for working too hard. The wage slips of hundreds of workers are inspected on pay days by the shop stewards who fix “fines” of up to £2 a week. The fines are being levied against sheet metal workers [...]
October 14, 1970
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Archive : Austin-Morris news
THE GUARDIAN At Cowley, a recommendation from local union officials for a resumption of work after a six week strike by 1,150 assembly workers was approved at a meeting by a narrow majority The stoppage is estimated to have cost British Leyland Motors about £10 millions in lost production. The strike, which was officially supported [...]
October 13, 1970
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Archive : Austin Maxi in a revised and improved version
By Julian Mounter Motoring Correspondent A completely revised and greatly improved Austin Maxi is announced by British Leyland today. Quieter, with a smoother and more positive gear change and modernized interior layout it is offered with a choice of 1500c.c. or 1750c.c. engines. The Maxi was heavily criticized after its launch in April last year. [...]
October 12, 1970
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Archive : Top level bid to settle Austin-Morris dispute
By R. W. Shakespeare Top level management/union talks will be held in York today to try to resolve the month old strike which has stopped all car production at British Leyland’s Austin-Morris plant at Cowley, Oxford. The stoppage by 1,100 men has made another 2,300 idle and already cost the company more than £10m. in [...]
October 8, 1970
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Archive : New strike hits Rover
By David Jack Yet another pay strike crippled British Leyland yesterday. By last night – less than 24 hours after the Government’s new anti-strike plans were published – three of the group’s big export earning plants were either shut down or struggling with more than 5,000 workers idle. The newest casualty yesterday was Rover at [...]
October 7, 1970
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Archive : Clerks’ strike halts Jaguar assembly, 1,000 laid off
By R. W. Shakespeare Production of Jaguar XJ6 and Daimler Sovereign cars was halted at British Leyland’s Coventry plant yesterday and 1,000 workers laid off because of a pay dispute involving 24 docket clerks. They are members of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union. The clerks had been on strike for a month, but other [...]
October 6, 1970
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Archive : Leyland plant resumes output
Production was resumed at the British Leyland Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge yesterday when 165 internal drivers went back to work after striking the day before. Car assembly however, was still at a standstill at the company’s Cowley, Oxford, plant. The drivers’ stoppage led to 3.000 Longbridge assembly workers being sent home on Wednesday. At Cowley [...]
October 2, 1970
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Archive : Drivers’ pay dispute halts Leyland plant output
Car production at British Leyland’s Austin-Morris plant in Longbridge. Birmingham, was stopped yesterday when 165 internal drivers walked out over a pay dispute. The stoppage is unofficial and the management claims that negotiations on the men’s pay demands were still in progress when they walked out. The drivers concerned are men who keep the assembly [...]
October 1, 1970
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