solid established.
finished cars.
In an eleventh hour bid to split the wOrkTOrCe management called for talks two days before the strike was due to start. They stuck to the final offer that had been so clearly rejected the week before, offered one-off lump payment of £208. This payment was not to be made to workers who started after '84.
Trade union negotiarecognised this as a LUis shoddy attempt to buy off showed no movement towards ing our claim, and failed to meet Gemand. for money on the basic rate.
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mittee (JNC). rejected the buy-off, but felt compelled to report back to mass and an effective 24-hour picket has been There are also pickets at delivery depots holding meetings, recommending rejection and endorsement ollie surike vulc By a Jaguar shop steward This decision was bitterly contested by some attempted sell-out. The INC argued that thev did not want workers on the picket lines the next morning to be told that their leaders were hiding an offer of £208.
At Castle Bromwich Radford (the body and power train plants) the buy-off attempt completely. Although some workers decided to accept the offer, a solid 75 per cent voted to endorse the strike vote.
It was a different story the Browns lane assembly nail TGWU convenor, Ron Newcombe ignored the JNC decision. He simply repeated the company offer, shop stewards rejection.
No attempt was made to win endorsement of the vote, other members of the JNC were not allowed to address the meeting.
Many workers who had voted fight previous meetings changed minds as a result. WICH When the vote was taken there was still a slim majority for the strike.
Unfortunately, mistake was made totalling the figures. bloc of 430 votes was added twice into the total against the strike.
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AN INDEFINITE strike of 7000 workers began at Jaguar Cars on 1 November in support of the 1984 wage claim. The strike in all three plants is totally