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1979: the Tories come come to power. New corporate plan.
Following the election of the Thatcher government in May 1979, Edwardes brought in a new corporate plan to replace the ten year plan drafted a year earlier with the Cars Council. It heralded a drastic contraction of BL.
In September 1979, Edwardes announced the www:
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Lowry's move to ACAS, to give the employers in general the benefit of his BL experience, saw an escalation of management's offensive. In March mant's affonninn In Marnh 1981, Edwardes began pushing for a new disputes procedure and disciplinary procedure.
A document was produced which, it emerged, had already been the subject of secret meetings with national officials and senior management. ed in the review, provoking an all-out strike of assembly workers in Longbridge when management cut the relief allowance to fund it.
This time the monthlong strike was sold out not just by the officials, but lirectly by the Longbridg Works Committer who strongly recommended and fought for a return to work on terms worse than the proposals that the workers originally struck against.
Not only was relief time cut, but the tracks were speeded up, and the night shift had their hours increased from 38 to 39