IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

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Red Weekly No. 102, 22 May 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 238 words

The scan: rw-no102-may-22-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

links short time working at Wilmot Breeden Holdings in Birmingham, the convenors have resolved to take the fight throughout the whole of the corporation which extends to France, Italy and Spain. Steps have already been taken to contact the are writing to the Spanish Workers Commissions in exile in Paris to contact the plant in Spain.

These moves are in response to attempts by the company-which makes locks and bomb channels for Ford's in In response to continuing redundancies and Spain.

plants in France and Italy and the stewards factory against another by transferring production of orders for the new Ford "Bobcat, a projected rival to the BLMC mini, to a plant it owns in Barcelona, Previously work for Ford's has always been done in plants in Birmingham. However both Ford's, who are manufacturing the 'Bobcat' in Spain, and the Spanish dictatorship are insisting that all the com ponents for the new model are made in This policy has not been decided out of The blue abour mounes aneer DrO duction costs make it far more profitable for Ford's and Wilmot Breeden to produce the cars in Spain than in Britain. It will also give the employers greater leverage in future dealings with the unions, as they can always use the threat to transfer all production abroad to blackmail workers DUL OL DUSUHIS SLUREICS Wilmot Breeden had obviously been informed by Ford's of their policy to

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