
Archive : Jaguar men vote to end strike
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 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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