By Clifford Webb The remaining opposition to BL management’s imposition of its pay and conditions package crumbled yesterday when 1600 Jaguar workers voted overwhelmingly to end their three week strike. […]
By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent The management of Jaguar is meeting 50 shop stewards today to try to settle a strike by 1,800 employees, which has stopped all car […]
THE GUARDIAN The dispute that halted production at British Leylant’s Longbridge plant at Birmingham and led to 7,000 men being laid off was resolved yesterday. The strikers agreed to take […]
About 3,000 of the 6500 Jaguar workers originally joined the strike by 18,500 BL employees protesting at the imposition of the company’s controversial pay and working conditions package. That strike […]
HOME NEWS By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent British Leyland management’s determination to push ahead with controversial changes in ,working practices has run into immediate trouble. A strike by 50 […]
By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent Militant shop stewards at British Leyland suffered another crushing defeat yesterday when mass meetings of workers rejected their recommendations to stay on strike and […]
HOME NEWS By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent BL management will have to wait until Tuesday to learn whether 18.000 striking workers obey the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) […]
By Donald Macintyre Labour Reporter The Transport and General Workers’ Union is recommending its 18000 striking BL members to return to work on a formula which leaves all the significant […]
BL yesterday threatened 18,500 strikers with dismissal unless they resume work by next Wednesday. The move puts Sir Michael Edwardes, the chairman, into direct confrontation with the powerful Transport and […]
The gulf between British Leyland and the Transport and General Workers’ Union to which most of the 17,000 men on strike at company plants belong. appears to be widening although […]
HOME NEWS By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent Managing directors from all BL Cars subsidiaries met at Oxford yesterday to formulate the company’s response to the official backing given by […]
By Clifford Webb The ‘initial’ success achieved by Sir Michael Edwardes, chairman of BL, in imposing his deadlocked pay and working conditions package suffered a sharp reverse yesterday when Britain’s […]
British Leyland got a spring tonic yesterday with the news that its car sales have zoomed ahead. The troubled state giant took 23.7 per cent of the British market in […]
From Our Correspondent Birmingham Mr Derek Robinson, the former British Leyland convener, went on believing that British Leyland would do a deal with him after his dismissal. He believed that […]
Nearly 80,000 BL car workers, 97 per cent of the manual labour force, rejected strike action yesterday and reported for work as usual. At three plants they had to brave […]
By Clifford Webb Midlands Sir Michael Edwardes, chairman of BL, has won yet another round in the battle with union militants. All 14 car plants due to return to work […]
Shop stewards at Leyland’s Longbridge, Birmingham, car plant voted yesterday not to strike over a new pay deal. But the company still faces the threat of stoppages at other factories […]
By David Felton Labour Reporter The two largest unions at British Leyland last night pulled back from calling a strike next week in protest at the company’s decision to impose […]
By Clifford Webb With the return of 4000 Rover car workers yesterday British Leyland has now resumed production of all its models. The workers’ return coincided with the ending of […]
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