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vote MASS meetings of Ford workers on Thursday and Friday. December 3 and 4 will decide on the final offer from Ford management.
The offer, to be presented after a meeting on December 2 between T&G negotiator Ron Todd and Ford bosses, looks like being 7.5 per cent, tied to the introduction of productivity and efficiency schemes that will tighten discipline on the shop floor.
The package would commit T&G full-timers, in alliance with local joint works committees, to "police' the shopfloor - to break up and isolate the rank and file opposition if the scheme gets going.
Already disputes at Ford Dagenham have stopped production several times over the very issues of flexmoney on the basic, and this fact plus the demobilisation created by Todd's secret talks and the closeness of Christmas, will create a pressure for acceptance.
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