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Archive : Lorry drivers dispute halts car factories
THE GUARDIAN LORRY DRIVERS DISPUTE HALTS CAR FACTORIES By Geoffrey Whitely Thousands of Midlands car workers will be idle today because of a lorry drivers pay dispute which has stopped […]
Month: January 1973
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Archive : Laid-off Cowley men will get cash payment
The 2,200 workers laid off by Austin-Morris from its car assembly plant at Cowley, Oxford, because of a dispute involving 88 paint sprayers, are to get an ex gratia payment […]
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Archive : Piecework struggle shifts to Coventry
by Clifford Webb It had to happen at some time and it had to happen in the Midlands. But it has undoubtedly come too late. Workers at a Coventry car […]
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Archive : Production disrupted
Production was disrupted at dozens of factories in Wales yesterday as engineering workers staged a one-day strike in protest against the Industrial Relations Act and the £55,000 fine on the […]
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Archive : SU Carburettor Halted By Protest Strike
By Clifford Webb, Midland industrial Correspondent SU Carburetter, of Birmingham, the British Leyland subsidiary which supplies all the group’s car factories with carburetters and fuel pumps, was closed last night […]