AT A MASS. meeting at the BL Cowley plant on Monday 4 July the workforce voted by a margin of 3-1 to accept management's proposals which included the withdrawal of the three minutes washing-up time at the end of each shift.
over the threatened removal of washing-up time and only returned to work on the basis of continued negotiations between management and unions at a national level.
The workers reaffirmwere non-negotiable by an vote at Hometer, since then te However, since then sation do tons the broken with management adamant on the withdrawal of the three The blame for the turnabout in the attitude of the work force lies almost entirely with leadership of the TGWU the AUEW.
Towards the end of the Moss Evans and Terry Duffy were in continual negotiation with BL management to bring Subscription ralto.
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Please send me as special offer ...... In April the workers had struck for 4½ weeks an end to the dispute.
They were responsible for the return to work formula which effectively curbed workers to the manageThe withdrawal of the three minutes is only the beginning of the management's drive to increase productivity. Once it was clear in tne negolations that the management would not budge from the three minutes, the union leaderships 'washed their hands' of the issue.
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per with the Post Off, London NI workers accepted the withdrawal of washing-up time last week, only when the plant union officials failed to provide leadership. This obviously had its effects on the assembly plant.
Despite the lack of national suppert the shop stewards committee in the assembly plant consistently showed a lead by recomaction as the only way of defending Lile washing-un protecting working conditions.
In spite of this set-back the Cowley workforce has demonstrated willingness stand up to management's attacks only to be betrayed by leadership. Dutiy considered it a 'tragedy' if Cowley were again • a clear indication of his desire to line up with BL management.
The remains continue the fight for leaderships which will defend the interests of their members.
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hit out at what he called a campaign of dedicated denigration' against the police.
on the far political climate in the capital which he saw as in. imical to progress in policing and in particular the growing demand for police accountability and peo. ple campaigning tor it.
While it is tempting to dismiss this gibberish as a maniac outburst we would be doing so át a cost to what existing civil liberties we have at present.
Newman his strategy for policing London (and this applies other parts of the countr well) deserves more serious consideration if we are to develop new forms of resistance to the increasingly aculc authoritarianism In particular one of the points of Newman's first annual reports where activists termed destabilising influence and merits particular atten. tion as well as the new style of community policing now being developed.
The sort of thinking prevalent in this type of policing sounds quite im-
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