DAILY MIRROR
By Patrick Mennem and John Husband
The two top bosses in Britain’s biggest motor company lashed out at strikers yesterday. Sir Donald Stokes, managing director of British Leyland, condemned strikes as, ‘plain stupidity.’
He warned: ‘Each strike or dispute is another feather plucked out of the goose that lays the golden egg . And I must admit that management is feeling pretty plucked right now.’
Sir Donald, speaking at a lunch in London, added: ‘Full employment is an objective which I believe is uppermost in the minds of most employees, and particularly their wives and families.’
The best way to ensure full employment, he said, was not by strikes, but by ‘maximum productivity from every operating union.’
Later Sir George Harriman, who hands over the chairmanship of British Leyland to Sir Donald next month, claimed that the wave of strikes this year showed there was ‘ a nation-wide breakdown of responsibility and discipline, a form of creeping anarchy.’
Sir George, president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, called for the creation of one big trade union to organise every worker in the motor industry .
Keith Adams
Is the Editor of the Parkers website and price guide, formerly editor of Classic Car Weekly, and launch editor/creator of Modern Classics magazine. Has contributed to various motoring titles including Octane, Practical Classics, Evo, Honest John, CAR magazine, Autocar, Pistonheads, Diesel Car, Practical Performance Car, Performance French Car, Car Mechanics, Jaguar World Monthly, MG Enthusiast, Modern MINI, Practical Classics, Fifth Gear Website, Radio 4, and the the Motoring Independent...
Likes 'conditionally challenged' motors and taking them on unfeasible adventures all across Europe.
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