Archive for July, 1975
Archive : Innocenti workers strike over job cuts
Workers at Leyland Innocenti’s plant near Milan today staged a half-day strike in protest against British Leyland’s decision to cut the labour force by a third, from 4,600 to about 3,000. A delegation of workers demonstrated before the Lombardy regional government’s seat in Milan. The metal workers trade union and the works council, in calling [...]
July 30, 1975
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Archive : Seat buys Leyland assembly plant in Spain for £8.8m
Madrid, July 22 British Leyland today sold its Pamplona car assembly plant to. the Spanish company Seat for an agreed price of 1100m pesetas (about £8.8m). The sale includes a commitment on the part of Seat to employ the workers laid off in Pamplona earlier this year when Authi, BLMC’s Spanish subsidiary, ended production in [...]
July 23, 1975
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Archive : The Killing Of A Car Giant
DAILY MIRROR By Robert Head City financier Jim Slater told British Leyland shareholders yesterday why their firm is broke. Waving a page from the Daily Mirror, Mr Slater, a director of the trouble-hit car group, said one reason was that ” our labour is the least productive in the world.” He quoted figures printed in [...]
July 15, 1975
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Archive : Shareholders Told Of Big BLMC Losses
EVENING TIMES British Leyland Motor Corporation are still making substantial losses. Lord Stokes, the chairman, told this to nearly 1000 angry shareholders – who have the chance of being paid 10p a share by the government in September or of leaving their shares in the business in the hope of improvement in the future – [...]
July 14, 1975
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Archive : Stay-out vote by car parts strikers on eve of holiday
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland components workers, whose month-old strike has cost more than £18.5m worth of lost car production and made 11,000 other workers idle, are to continue their unofficial stoppage. They will not meet again until July 31, four days after their factory at Hemel Hempstead is due to reopen after the [...]
July 11, 1975
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Archive : More labour troubles
By R. W. Shakepeare British Leyland has run into more labour troubles to add to those which during the past two weeks have caused about £14.5m-worth of production losses in its car plants and made nearly 12,000 workers idle. Yesterday production was also halted at the company’s Alvis military vehicles division factory in Coventry, where [...]
July 10, 1975
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Archive : Strike halts 18/22 output at Cowley
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland’s latest labour problems worsened yesterday when production of the recently launched 18/22 car range at the big Cowley, Oxford, plant had to be stopped and 1,900 workers were laid off, bringing the total now idle to nearly 12,000. The company has given warning that there could be more lay-offs [...]
July 5, 1975
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Archive : Disruption spreading at Leyland
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland, with nearly 8,000 workers idle and production heavily disrupted at plants in the Midlands and on Merseyside, may be forced to lay off several thousand more employees after the weekend. Car assembly plants and bodypressing factories will be facing mounting problems over component supplies following a [...]
July 4, 1975
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