Yet another nail was knocked into the coffin of British Leyland workers on Wednesday 6 August, when the national officials of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions pushed through acceptance of the company's proposals for' worker participation'.
In the shadow of the Healey measures, using the threat of *a possible NVT in the car industry' coupled with the age-old bankrupt whine of the -trade union bureaucracy-we've done the best that we can'-AUEW executive member Bob Wright led the delegates up the garden path of 'participation'- in speed-up, rationalisation and bankruptcy.
The company proposals are nothing The company had swept aside the last prout Tony Homer, CSEU 9b (Oxford) District Secretary, demolished this argument by asking waat would nappen 11 such "alternatives" included a choice between running down either Longbridge or Cowley? Homer said that a united response was necessary against any threat by the company against any section of the workforce. He concluded by stating that the way to achieve a solution in the interest of BL workers is to establish workers control-to have full access to all information, and to establish committees which decide what is to be produced and how it is to be produced-in a lew words to produce for social neea and not for Such a development can only be achieved by the complete public ownership of the motor industry with a national