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Join the Leyland Action Committee Contact: 194 Dawlish Rd, Birmingham 29 IANAGEMENT has been in •isarray in the Cowley Body 'lant since the ending of the issembly Plant 'washing up ime' strike.

Many Body Plant workers lad been laid off during the lispute. Most of those not laid iff carried on taking their five ninutes' washing-up time at the indofeach shift.

The company added up this ime, and deducted three quartirs of an hour's pay at the end if the week.

When the rest of the plant reurned last Wednesday, most ections similarly walked off the ob to wash their hands as ormal. The 'company at first nsisted that the month's delay • implementing the end of : ashing-up le applied only to NU LUKE FOR IORKERS the Assembly Plant. But it was clear that if the company took money off these sections returning, particularly the Acclaim and the Rover/ Ambassador, the workers were likely to take strike action.

After two days the company announced that whilst they were discussing the situation with the Body, Plant leadership, they would not stop people's money. It's clear that they want to avoid another dispute straight away.

It is also clear that although the Assembly Plant workers were sold out, all the workers of Cowley feel they have flexed their muscles and proved they can take on the company.

Self-confidence is returning to the workforce.

Fight a drag on the militancy of the civil service, as shown most recently by its NEC's cowardly recommendation to its members to accept the Tory pay "offer"

John THE Executive Committee elect for the Manchester division of USDAW, lan France, has resigned his seat because he claims he won his election "by sheer fluke" (Socialist Worker USDAW conference bulletin, 26.4.83).

He claimed that 'to go on a 16-strong • Executive that has only two left-wingers on it and with no real base would leave me powerless to oppose the normal round of Executive sell-outs and shabby compromises". The bulletin tries to justify his action by the fact that the USDAW conference "voted against all motions opposing incomes policy" and supported "Labour's programme of wage restraint"

Yet France had announced his intention to resign at the pre-conference meeting of the Broad Left before those votes were cast.

France had stood on a DELEGATIONS from the strike at N Greening Ltd, Warrington, have travelled over the last week to the Midlands, Glasgow, and London.

The 400 workers at Greenings - a subsidiary of Johnson Firth Brown - are on strike against moves by managements to abolish the annual wage claim, end nego. tiated holidays, reduce trade un ion facilities, and axe 89 jobs.

Messages donations N Greening JSSC, c/o Len Blood, 26 St. John St., Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. AQUESTION Independent London N8.

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Socialist Organiser no: 130 May 5, 1983 Page 15 Fonder's t lead

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