Hundreds laid off at Leyland
NZPA London Hundreds more British Leyland workers were -laid off yesterday because of the SNZII million-a-day strike over rest time.
Some 2200 men are on strike and 5000 had already been laid off at the factory where the strike began, Lonbridge in Birmingham.
Informal union-manage-ment talks on Friday failed to produce a settlement, and no further talks are planned. The men, angered by the company’s efforts to fund a reduction in the working week from 40 to 39 hours by cutting rest time, are not due to meet again until next Thursday. By then it is estimated that the strike — which has halted production of the Austin Metro, the Mini, and the Allegro — will have cost B.L. ?NZ9o.million in lost production:
Meanwhile. Ford management and union negotiators are to hold informal talks to try to avert a threatened allout strike by the company’s 54,000 hourly paid workers from November 24. . '
Union negotiators have reaffirmed their recommendation for a strike unless the company improves its 4.5 per cent pay offer without strings. ■
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