FORD WORKERS in Genk, Belgium, striking for two hours off the working week and the recruitment of extra workers to compensate for lost production time.
The action started on Monday LO ADMII IOIOW ing a ballot in which 74 per cent of the workers voted to strike.
There is strong feeling in the Genk plant over job losses automation, and this has been fuelled by Ford's policy of taking on temporary workers and sacking them when they are no longer needed.
At the moment a ditferent department is striking each day as under Belgian law the company cannot immediately off other areas without pect on production is total. Nevertheless, the el No Sierra cars are being produced.
Ford workers everywhere have a real interest in the victory of the Genk strike. It is the first serious challenge company's policy of slashing jobs through automation and robotisa tion, explicitly linking the fight for a 38-hour week with the creation of extra jobs Thousands of job have been lost in Ford Europe and plante the United States, plans for the future raise the spectre of the workerless factory.
At Cologne, West Germany, Ford are discussin building a new automater - the replacement (seventy!)
Play. 7000 iobs lost on the Dagenham the Jas three years, plant workers have wanted that must go by 1985.
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