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Month: October 1975

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Archive : BL shop stewards win extra muscle

29 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN By GEOFFREY WHITELEY, Labour Staff Leaders of 116,000 British Leyland car workers yesterday signed themselves into joint management of the State-financed company. After a formal ceremony in Coventry […]

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Archive : We can make British Leyland a real force

24 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

by BOB WRIGHT THE British motor car industry is up against tremendous competition. There are three international companies in the centre of the industry plus British Leyland, which will be […]

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Archive : Leyland stewards get target for ‘survival’

23 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Christopher Thomas Labour Staff British Leyland shop stewards were told last night that the company must increase its car output by 25 per cent within Six months-in order to […]

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Archive : Leyland disputes cutting badly-needed production

22 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Output at Leyland Cars is being hit by a wave of industrial disputes at a time when the company urgently needs full production to replenish stocks depleted […]

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Archive : Leyland send 600 home for “abysmal output”

21 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb About 600 assembly workers at Leyland’s light van factory in Birmingham were sent home yesterday and told not to return for one week because of their “abysmally […]

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Archive : Leyland chief calls for wage system reform

17 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

British Leyland would continue to “hand the industry over on a plate” to its competitors until it introduced a more rational wage bargaining system, Mr Pat Lowry, the group’s personnel […]

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Archive : Stewards oppose Leyland ballot proposition

9 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Our Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland’s far-reaching plans for worker participation have led to a conflict between the company and shop stewards over the way in which shop floor […]

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Archive : Sir Ronald Edwards’ made non-executive chairman of British Leyland board

4 October 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Desmond Ouigley Professor Sir Ronald Edwards, speaking a few hours after being appointed non-executive chairman of British Leyland Limited yesterday, said he did not regard the company as being […]

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