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The BL Combine Committee has called a meeting for Saturday 6th. This makes.

The corporate plan that the Leyland Vehicles workers are striking against is the same plan that BL Cars workers have suffered under. It is the same Edwardes Winning this LV jobs fight means beating Edwardes and the Tories -and that However, there are some serious problems facing the strike. In particular the Lancashire LV strike committee's emphasis on the call for negotiations (rather than on the demand for no redundancies) gives the bosses a valuable hostage Ron Hancock, LV Chairman, has already said that he is willing to "negotiate" on the union's alternative plan and there is a real danger that the AUEW national leadership could try to force a return to work on the basis of such a vague commitment from management with no guarantee that a single job would be saved at In Bathgate, new talks are scheduled for Wednesday 3rd-although previous A Leyland Action Committee bulletin distributed at the Lancashire plant this "No-one should think that victory will be easy. The destruction of Leyland Vehicles is but another stage in the decimation of BL by Michael Edwardes. It is his corporate plan which has got to be defeated if still more communities are "Whilst it is clearly correct to force the employer to talk, there is a world of difference between that and getting a complete withdrawal of management's "There should be no question of a return to work without cast iron guarantees that no jobs will go and the strike committee should make this clear immediaterights of property". For a judge in Edinburgh, that was good enough reason to grant a court order for BL to evict workers occupying its Bathgate plant.

Unfortunataly tha antian umurtunately, we acuun committee occupying the plant responded by immedlately quitting. There was no mass meeting or consultation it possible to start spreading the struggle to BL Cars.

means spreading the fight. the end of the day.

with the workforce.

But picketing is now well-organised and confident: The workers are still determined to fight for the right to work, against the rights of property!

On Wednesday January 27, an all-Scotland shop stewards' conference convened by West Lothian Trades Council gave support management-and the same Tory government behind it.

to fortune and could be used to undermine the unity of the strikers.

Bathgate.

Workers from Plesseys electronics factory, also in Bathgate, also occupied in defence of jobs, and now also facing a court order, were represented on the platform.

Messages/money: BL strike committee, c/o West Lothian District Council, Bathgate, Scotland.

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