The right in the national executmium payment for three shift working centres uround an old bone of contention.
operators" day and night shifts three shift system.
Thirleene years ago, the press were changed to a round the clock Along with this the management agreed to pay an extra shift allowance of £1.25 a week and also put the workers on a guaranteed week tion, CONDITION Although a condition of three shift working was that it would run for a trial period of a yuar, and if the workers rejected it they would have the right to return to the old Al the same time management withdrew the pledge of the guuranteed week. Now after 13 years of inflation the three shift workers are just £1.27 better off than their two The reason that this dispute has Fords was that gained by the nine week official strike in 1971. Government wage freezes since then have After the downfall of the Tory strikers at Halewood, CLAIM The ball was started rolling by the press shop stewards in late July Just after this, the Communist rious idea of an Interim Wage Claim into the factory.