Archive : Strikes
THE GUARDIAN In the Midlands, the car industry was the worst affected, with 2,600 workers at the Austin factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, made idle. They had to be laid off […]
THE GUARDIAN In the Midlands, the car industry was the worst affected, with 2,600 workers at the Austin factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, made idle. They had to be laid off […]
DAILY MIRROR By Patrick Mennem and John Husband The two top bosses in Britain’s biggest motor company lashed out at strikers yesterday. Sir Donald Stokes, managing director of British Leyland, […]
DAILY MIRROR Workers on the Morris 1000 line at Oxford yesterday stopped work for fifteen minutes in every hour. They are protesting against frequent lay-offs caused by shortage of axles. […]
DAILY EXPRESS Strangest strike of the lot goes into its fifth day at the Morris Motors plant, Cowley, Oxford, where 175 assembly men are stopping work for 15 minutes every […]
From GEOFFREY CHARLES – Paris British Leyland has had a “showdown” with its component supply companies. The recent series of strikes has cost the group about 4,000 cars a week […]
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