AS A RESULT of the decisive vote at a meeting last week, workers are set claim, which is due on 1 November.
steward at Cowley.
What happened at Cowley mass meeting!
The Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) resolution rejecting the company pay offer was put to mass meetings of the night shift on day shift Out of a total of 8000 in Assembly Body Plants only 40 vote against strike action. The overtime ban, started last month, mass Austin Rover Group (ARG) on confrontation over their pay MIKE PICKEN spoke to a TGWU senior shop will be continued, until The plans were picketed at the weekend.
The ban has been so effec tive that supervisors and non-union managers have brought Longbridge other plants to try to cover.
What is the level of militancy at Cowley?
Militanty is incredibly high. Workers al C prepared to fight until the pay claim is settled in full. They are determined not to be sold out.
The wage offer derisory four and half per cent TOT tane average Grade 3 worker it would mean an extra £3.20 in th wage packet. • Workers are taking home £8.00 a week less than in 1981, despite a work effort being up by world war industry only Japan has a higher rate of exploitation. In Cowley assembly there have been disputes since January related to the slave labour condi tions.
At the last pay review, after the washing-up dispute, we were guaranteed by management that we would get £25 a week bonus, rising to £30 with further efficienty improvements. Despite uffering speed-ur bonus Cowley assembly has dropped to £4.00 weekly.
What is the attitude of national leaders to the claim?
The JNC resolution calls for ARG workers to take any action necessary to win the claim.
Cowley have great cocialuis of the national leadership, and have constantly called for the date for strike action to be set. We feel the resolution weak, gives too much control to the JNC What is necessary to win? Final In future, mass meetings in the plants will decide by majority vote which way their total vote will be cast, and these will ten be louica up nanonal ly.
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"Yes, we do have an incentive plan here .. work faster or get fired!"