British Car Workers Reject Pay Offer
(N.z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LIVERPOOL (England), January 30. The threat of a major strike affecting the Ford Motor Company’s factories in Britain came closer when 7000 workers in Liverpool overwhelmingly rejected the firm’s latest wage offer.
Ford has offered its employees a wage rise ranging from $8.50 to $12.30 a week.
But at a meeting in Liverpool last night workers from the big Halewood plant rejected the offer as a totally inadequate response to their demand for an increase which would put them on a level with the better-paid car men in the Midlands. Union leaders want the rise to be $21.40 a week. The move came after a rash of disputes which has shaken British car manufacturers in the last few days. An unofficial strike at a Southern England engineering works stopped output at the Jaguar-Daimler factory in the Midlands city of Coventry,. and 1500 workers there were laid off.
In Birmingham a dispute over union recognition led to the blacking of deliveries to some 50 factories, many of them producing for the car industry.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32210, 31 January 1970, Page 11
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