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Archive : Why ‘Red Robbo’ had to go
DAILY EXPRESS THE boss of Austin Morris told yesterday why he sacked former shop floor workmate “Red Robbo.” Managing director Harold Musgrove, who started with Robinson as a teenage apprentice […]
Month: August 1980
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Archive : BL moves to curb the militants by Clifford Webb
BL is taking tough action to curb the activities of the unofficial combined shop stewards committee which last week demanded a 20 per cent wage increase despite the deepening recession […]
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Archive : Shop stewards to put in 20pc wage claim for BL workers
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Forty senior shop stewards who are said to represent 80,000 BL car workers met in Birmingham yesterday and voted unanimously to lodge a 20 […]
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Archive : Car parking dispute starts strike at BL
THE GUARDIAN CAR PARKING DISPUTE STARTS STRIKE AT BL By Paul Johnson Night shift workers at the BL plant at Solihull, West Midlands, went on strike in a row over […]
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Archive : More short time at Rover
By Clifford Webb BL is increasing short-time working for 2,500 employees at its Rover car plant at Solilhull. The present four-day week is being reduced to two days to prevent […]
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Archive : MG winds down to closure in October
Workers at the MG factory at Abingdon return from their summer holidays today’ to a two-day week and the prospect of unemployment in three months time. Thousands of the sports […]
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Archive : BL to shed 400 jobs at Swindon
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent BL has told shop stewards at its Swindon car body plant that 400 redundancies are needed because of the planned closure of MG Abingdon […]