Month: January 1972

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland may be called upon to make a substantial compensation payment to 12,000 manual workers at its Longbridge, Birmingham car plant to induce […]

By Clifford Webb British Leyland yesterday made the important breakthrough in its fight with the unions to end piece-work rates at Longbridge, near Birmingham, its biggest car plant. An immediate […]

Four stop work over inch of rainwater and 1,200 laid off By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent Four men who objected to walking through an inch of floodwater at British […]

British Leyland has laid off nearly 4,000 workers at its Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge, Birmingham, and the car body works at Castle Bromwich because of a strike by 134 women […]

By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent The 134 women machinists at British Leyland’s Longbridge, Birmingham, car plant, whose week old strike has made nearly 4,000 car workers idle, have […]

THE GUARDIAN CAR FACTORY STRIKE LAYS OFF 3,200 Three assembly lines were stopped at the Austin-Morris factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, yesterday and 3,200 workers were laid off because of the […]

Lord Stokes writes to Sir Alec Issigonis on this day. “As you know I was away when the little ceremony took place to mark your retirement and I have, of […]

By Alan Hamilton Labour Staff Production at the Triumph car body plant in Liverpool is expected to restart today following the decision by 650 workers to end their 10 day […]

By Anthony Rowley British Leyland’s profits recovered to £32.4m in 1970-71 from £0.9m the previous year, Lord Stokes, the chairman and managing director, revealed yesterday. Sales rose by 15 per […]

By Our Midland Industrial Correspondent Two of the three British Leyland Mini assembly lines and the 1800 assembly line at Austin-Morris, Longbridge, Birmingham, shut down last night and 3,200 workers […]

The ending of the two week-old strike of 100 engine assembly men at the Jaguar works in Coventry means that in all 2,600 men will be back at work next […]

Production at British Leyland’s Austin Morris plant at Longbridge, the largest in Britain, could be halted within the next 48 hours by a strike of 130 sewing machine operators. The […]

From Clifford Webb, Midlands Industrial Correspondent A number of British Leyland’s biggest Austin-Morris distributors have had their sales territories reduced in the final stages of the restructuring of the old […]

Triumph Motors accused employees at their Liverpool plant last night of breaking an agreement to move from job to job to enable the company to cope with an abnormally high […]

THE GUARDIAN DISPUTES Three thousand workers , are on strike at another Scottish vehicle works, the British Leyland factory at Bathgate. The management has refused to improve on an offer […]

DAILY EXPRESS MINI TOPS RECORD YEAR By David Benson The mighty Mini led the British Leyland firm to a record-making year in 1971, it was announced last night. It became […]

At British Leyland’s truck and tractor plant at Bathgate, West Lothian, the 3,500 shop floor employees carried out their threat to strike unless the company met demands for an £8 […]

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Labour relations problems at British Leyland’s Midland car plants fluctuated yesterday with one group of strikers returning to work and a second voting to […]

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent More than 6,000 British Leyland car workers were laid off last night as a further strike added to the production chaos caused by disputes […]

THE GUARDIAN BLMC SEEKS CHANGES IN PAY By Geoffrey Whiteley British Leyland is to continue negotiations with shop stewards at its Triumph car plant in Coventry over a new type […]

At the Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge, production of Minis was again at a standstill yesterday, with 2,000 car assembly workers and another 1,000 engine assemblers laid off because of a […]