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produces the Rover, the Ambassador, and the Honda Acclaim). On Wednesday it spread to the day shift, and all production was at a standstill.

The militancy was tremendous. All the usual threats from the management were swept aside with unanimous votes.

Demands were advanced for the full restoration of trade union facilities; the end of 'bully-boy' management; and the withdrawal of all previous threatening The unions were in a strong position. An absolutely determined labour force was stopping three models BL badly needs, in a plant where a major new model is Power/Irish Workers' Group. being launched:

" The strike had the strength to break the company's strategy and re-establish conditions in the plant.

Assimilation. Saturday Nov- On Friday BL opened negotiations with the outside officials. They went on until almost midnight.

At the end of it they SPARTACIST Truth Kit - a came cut with a miserable compromise. The disciplinLister, published by the ary action against the individual worker would be droppWorkers Socialist League.

Led; a committee of top management, union officials, and convenors would be set up to investigate the problems in the plant; and there would THE fightback against BS's proposal to close the Clydebridge Steelworks is over. At a mass meeting in the workplace, the workforce voted by a 10-1 majority to open discussions with management on severance pay.

The closure of Clydebridge, involving 575 workers, is a serious blow to the Cambuslang area where, over the last few years, Hallside Steel Works, Clyde Iron Works, and Chunky Chicken have closed, and Hoover has cut many jobs.

There are links between Clydebridge, Hoover, the Trades Council, Labour Party, and tenants associations, which could have been the basis for a fightback.

But the workers were more convinced by the carrot of redundancy payments than they were by the union leadership's will to light the closure.

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