Month: March 1970

THE GUARDIAN By GEOFFREY WHITELEY, Northern Labour Correspondent Three weeks of industrial strife at British Leyland plants in the Midlands ended yesterday on the eve of the Birmingham meeting which […]

Britain’s car makers face a brighter prospect next week. Some of the worst labour disputes that have caused production chaos over large sections of the industry were resolved yesterday. Most […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Les Cannon, president of the electricians’ union, made a personal attempt to break the fortnight-old deadlock at British Leyland’s Cowley plant. He sent messages […]

THE GUARDIAN By GEOFFREY WHITELEY, Northern Labour Correspondent More workers were made idle in the car industry yesterday, mainly as a result of continuing disputes at factories of the Austin-Morris […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Within a few hours of returning to work yesterday 200 strikers at British Leyland’s biggest car plant at Longbridge, Birmingham walked out again. Production […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Production of Jaguar’s E- type sports car stopped last night and 50 men were laid off because of the continuing shortage of disc brakes […]

The five-week dispute at the Girling brake factory at Bromborough is over. The strike caused workers at the Rover factory at Solihull to be laid off. The dispute originally involved […]