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Month: April 1980

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Archive : Jaguar men vote to end strike

30 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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. […]

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Archive : Management to meet Jaguar stewards today

26 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Longbridge strike resolved

25 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Jaguar workers go out in sympathy

24 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Strike by 50 BL workers over loss of ‘togging-up’ allowance stops Mini and Allegro production

23 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BL stewards defeated as 14,000 go back

22 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Strikers at BL will decide by Tuesday whether to accept terms laid down by company

19 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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) […]

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Archive : Transport union tells 18,000 strikers at BL to return to work

18 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BL threat to dismiss 18,500 unless strike is called off

17 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Dispute at BL hardens as more men strike

16 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BL package deal strike will halt Mini production line today

15 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : 12,000 strike at BL as transport union makes pay protest official

12 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BL Sales Zoom Ahead

11 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Dismissal ‘made BL convener ill’

11 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Most of BL workers accept new package

10 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Strike call ignored as 14 BL plants get back into production

9 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Longbridge shop stewards vote against striking

5 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BL’s big unions pull back from stoppage

2 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BL back to producing all models as sales of cars reach record

1 April 1980 Keith Adams 0

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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