Buckle's role in isolating strikers
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-04-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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THE PRESS has claimed that the Cowley Assembly Plant is the only BL factory that has 'hand-washing time'.
This is untrue. The Cowley Body Piant also has this agreement - and should be out on strike alongside the Assembly Plant.
There is a reason why it is not - and that is its leadership, and mainly David Buckle, the TGWU district secretary.
The 'three minutes' issue is only the latest of a series of management attacks. Speed-up and brutalisation of the workforce came to a head first in the Body Plant. Three weeks before the curAUEW members who feel that they are battling against their leadership almost as much as BL management will be confirmed in this view by Executive member Ken Cure, who told the Financial Times and that includes the company as well as RACERO DRIVING IS BELIEVING ALISTIN ROVER GROUP -
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I don't want to see any- one beaten into the ground,