
Archive : Leyland rebel the bosses dare not hire faces new threat
DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND REBEL THE BOSSES DARE NOT HIRE FACES NEW THREAT By Mark Douglas Home Every day Mike Savage, the anti-strike rebel who quit his job with British Leyland […]
DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND REBEL THE BOSSES DARE NOT HIRE FACES NEW THREAT By Mark Douglas Home Every day Mike Savage, the anti-strike rebel who quit his job with British Leyland […]
THE GUARDIAN THE EMBARRASSING MINI’S By Jane McLoughlin The BL Mini has sold itself into a shortage. BL has maintained its market lead in UK with the Mini and Allegro […]
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THE GUARDIAN CONTEMPT FUELS PARK ROYAL REVOLOUTION By Nick Davies When the body shop at British Leyland’s Park Royal works ran out of London bus floors last week they found […]
DAILY EXPRESS UNION THREAT OVER LEYLAND CUTS By Barry Devney Britain’s biggest union is drawing up battle plans to prevent the “surgery ” which British Leyland’s chief Sir Michael Edwardes […]
DAILY EXPRESS The news was bleak, too, for British Leyland last night when all major unions had rejected the plan by company boss Sir Michael Edwardes to streamline the ailing […]
DAILY EXPRESS ENGINEERS STRIKE For British Leyland. the anti-strike revolt grew at Castle Bromwich (Birmingham) as about 3,000 workers crossed picket lines. But 12 Jaguar-Rover-Triumph factories and four Austin Morris […]
THE GUARDIAN STRIKE WARNING OVER LEYLAND REDUNDANCY PLAN By Keith Harper, Labour Editor Shop stewards representing Transport and General Workers Union members at British Leyland yesterday threatened to strike if […]
Bus Makers Take BL For A Ride Leyland bus makers were accused yesterday of deliberately keeping production low. Commenting on the decision, to shut down the Titan, plant in North […]
DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND UNIONS SET FOR A FIGHT Union leaders are squaring up for a battle, to save thousands of jobs threatened by the British Leyland cutbacks. Urgent talks were […]
DAILY EXPRESS THE ONLY WAY LEFT FOR LEYLAND By Jeremy Gates It has been nourished, for these four long years since the days of the Ryder “rescue,” with £1 million […]
DAILY MIRROR Bitter Unions Hit Out Union Reaction reaction to the Leyland cutbacks was shocked and bitter. Engineering union president Terry Duffy said: “We don’t accept there must be compulsory […]
Daily Express THE PARTY’S OVER By Peter Hitchens After the party, the new dawn breaks bleakly for Leyland today , a prospect of closing factories and vanishing jobs for the […]
THE GUARDIAN The Engineering Dispute Rumbles on By John Ardill British Leyland has 8,000 workers idle , on strike or laid off ,as it tries to get back to normal […]
DAILY MIRROR Strike Revolt Flops As Car Workers Stay Home The great anti-strike protest turned into a major flop yesterday. Thousands of engineering workers who had threatened to defy union […]
DAILY EXPRESS CAR STRIKERS SET FOR ANGRY CLASH By David Jack SCORES of extra police will be standing by for tomorrow’s showdown in the anti-strike rebellion at Leyland’s biggest car […]
DAILY MIRROR Leyland To Slash 6000 More Jobs By Alan Law British Leyland bosses are planning to axe another 6000 jobs on top of the 12500 cutback already announced. This […]
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