They have been laid off indefinitely. will be.
The talks going on between American boss John Ricardo and the Labour Government are farcical. Chrysler don't want their British plant - which has made losses in seven out of eleven years - - on top of their world-wide losses of £116 million in the first nine months of 1975. But nor does the Labour Government want to pick up the bankrupt UK operation. Last Friday, 4,300 workers at Chrysler's Ryton assembly plant in Coventry picked up their pay packets - perhaps for the last time.
In early November the workers were told that there were only eleven production days left to Christmas. The plant unions accepted this but asked to work all these in November so that social security could be claimed in full for December. But last Friday no new job cards were issued for January — and in all likelihood they never HOUR Now the plant has been occupied against Leyland's moves to liquidate Chrysler workers on the march as part of the 20,000 strong demonstration against unemployment which took place in London last Wednesday. Now they can place themselves at the head of the fight for the right to work by occupying to save their jobs.
the firm, and the trade union movesolidarity strikes if the jobs are not saved. In the fight for the right to work Chrysler workers could give the same lead to British workers. And the best way of sending out a rallying call to.the labour movement is by occupying to save jobs now