BL puts the boot in! Procedure agreement builds on Tebbit (continued)
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Published by the Socialist Organiser Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London N8, and printed by East End Offset (TU). Registere 1 as a newspaper at the GPO. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the SOA. ment to reintroduce it into negotiations was smuggled into the sell out formula at the conclusion of last November's BL Cars wage review.
Throughout the two months, details of the negot¡ations have been withheld from the shop stewards and the workforce.
Management has made few concessions since the original draft was tabled in March 1981. In fact, in some ways the now draft is worsC.
The document is written to take the Tebbit Bill fully into account. Instead of workers being required to be members of an appropriate trade union, as in the existing BL agreement, the new draft says only that it is in the 'mutual interest' of the company and its employees that they are members of a union, and provides for 'discussions' in the event of 'difficulties' over membership.
An extension and consolidation of the check-off system is presented as an answer to the problems of the unions in maintaining 100% membership.
The document ends all full-time positions for senior shop stewards and their deputies, except in the case of senior stewards in certain large plants. This clause has already been implemented in most plants in advance of the signing of this document.
Joint plant-level negotia-