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ved had voted by a very narThe Cowley complex has been built up as a major production centre over the past few years. It produces the Rover SD1, the Ambassador, and the Honda Acclaim, and it has received £180 million investment over the last two years for the mass production LC10 model, which is in its pre-production stage at the plant.

BL have therefore seen the plant as a key target for their productivity offensive and their efforts to reduce trade union power.

Edwardes' management method has been to send special management teams, selected from managers made surplus by closures, into individual plants.

Only the most ruthless are selected, and many of them carry the authority of corporate management.

They are boot-boys, and get the job for that quality.

In some plants, such as the Cowley Assembly Plant, they have imposed a system of total management authority. Every management deciCommunity Centre, 61B Mansfield Rd.

NORTH-WEST London Socialist Organiser group discussion meetings: every other Sunday, 8pm (for venue, see SO sellers).

In Poplar and Clay Cross, Labour councils have defied Tory governments. But a confrontation over refusal to balance a council budget would be different and unprecedented? What would happen? What tactics would be best?

. Islington Socialist Organiser meeting: speaker, Martin Loughlin. Sunday November 28,3pm, Thornhill Neighbourhood Project, Orkney House, Caledonian Road. For baby-sitting, phone Nik, 607 5268.

SOUTH EAST London Socialist Organiser forums. every other Thursday, 8pm at the Queen Victoria, Artillery Place, Woolwich.

STOKE Socialist Organiser meeting: Dave Spencer on What Socialist Organiser is, and why we are fighting the witch-hunt. Sunday November 14, 7.30, The Swan, Swan Square, Burslem. ISLINGTON Socialist Organ. iser. meets alternate Sundays