The long post-war boom brought cars ployment was still a mere one per cent. worker. поусе)• Only 37 percent of employment is n the service sector, compared with 65 per ent nationally. Coventry workers are concenrated in large scale manufacturing industries, ind it is these industries that are bearing the brunt of the economic crisis.
Alfred Herbert aim to axe at least 900 workGEC is cutting back 1,100 jobs due to Govlerbert workers at a recent mass meeting - looking forward to a bleak future? ernment-sponsored cuts in Post Office orders. And the other side of the gains won by Coventry workers during the boom - when it was often simpler for employers to give in than face rotracted strike action - is now making itself Coventry workers won high, often the best rages - the Coventry toolroom agreement for Hong time set the pace for national negotiaions in the engineering industry. They develop8 co-operatives
In Part 2 of his series of articles on occupations, John Roberts looks at OcCUPaTIona red weekly 13 november 1975