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Archive : Government puts £75m more into BL
BL has received a further tranche of £75m of public funds towards the total of £300m earmarked by the Government for the company’s 1980-81 new model and rationalization plans. The […]
Month: May 1980
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Archive : Three-day week at MG plant
By Clifford Webb A further short decline in the already depressed American car market combined with the falling dollar has forced BL to announce extended short-time working for its MG […]
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Archive : BL’s record on internal disputes improves, but strikes cost £60m
By Brvan Appleyard Working hours lost at BL because of internal disputes fell by 52 per cent last year and by a further 30 per cent in the first quarter […]
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Archive : BL – Production stopped at only one factory
By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent British Leyland workers ignored the call in such numbers that delighted factory managers abandoned plans to count those who reported. Instead they counted those […]
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Archive : Robinson leave to make claim refused
From Our Correspondent Birmingham Mr Derek Robinson, the British Leyland shop steward convener who was dismissed, has been refused leave to make a claim for unfair dismissal. An industrial tribunal […]
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Archive : Robinson claim to have halted BL strikes
From Our Correspondent Birmingham Mr Derek Robinson, the shop steward convener dismissed by British Leyland as a threat to industrial peace told a Birmingham industrial tribunal yesterday that “on countless […]
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Archive : Sir Keith Takes Over Leyland
DAILY MIRROR The National Enterprise Board is to hand over control of British Leyland to Sir Keith Joseph’s Department of Industry. In future Sir Keith will be directly responsible for […]
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Archive : Robinson dismissal ‘came as shock’
From Our Correspondent Birmingham Mr Derek Robinson. the forrmer shop steward convener at Brioish Leyland’s Longbridge plant, was stunned in-to -disbelief when thle companv dismissed him. That was made plain […]