SHUT-DOWN AT VAUXHALL from David Robinson. Following the decision of Vauxhall's 25,000 manual workers to work to rule and ban overtime the management shut down the Ellesmere Port and Luton factories, Talks between managment and the unions last Monday broke up after the management demanded an unconditional return to normal working. . A meeting of the joint shop stewards committee on Tuesday decided that the work to rule and overtime ban should continue. Jim Watts, shop stewards convenor for the National Union of Vehicle Builders, said, "We are continuing the work to rule and other measures because the company is demanding complete capitulation. We want this trouble to end and we have offered further talks; but the company wants them only on its own terms." The shop stewards have set up a "fighting fund" to allay hardship among the men laid off and has called on the company to pay them for their lost time. under the terms of the guaranteed week agreement. The Vauxhall workers have refused to be intimidated in their fight for conditions and wages equal to those in other sections of the motor industry. Threats of a complete lock-out are still being made by the management. A company spokesman said on Tuesday;"The longer the work to rule goes on the more difficult things will become and more production areas may have to be shut down,"
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 12, 21 September 1967
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