so the unions didnt bring coventry car factories out on strike every week for years?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6729683.stmI learend how to drive in a Imp
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The Imp itself was underdeveloped, and the aforementioned build quality and unreliability problems, coupled with buyer apathy towards the quirky design was reflected in poor sales. After a reasonably successful start in 1963–65, the Imp's fortunes in the marketplace went into terminal decline. Lost production caused by constant strike action by the Linwood workforce only added to the problems
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British Leyland (B.L.) were particularly hard hit by strike action during the 1970's. Whilst its true that the company lost a lot of cars and money through strike action, far more damaging was the effect that the strikes had on the public's perception of the company and the vehicles it hoped they would buy. British Leyland began to symbolize all that was supposedly wrong with Britain (what people in the rest of the world were calling the English Disease). Hand in hand with the strikes was a marked decline in build quality. Many people blamed the unions and indirectly the workforce for this. B.L. employees didn't seem to take any pride in their work.
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At the centre of this political storm was Derek Robinson (dubbed "Red Robbo" by the media). Mr Robinson was Works Convenor for the Longbridge plant in Birmingham during the 1970's. In a bitter dispute in the early 1980's he was sacked by the then Managing Director Michael Edwards. According to one source Mr Robinson was involved in over 500 disputes at Longbridge during the period 1978 to 1979.
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By the 1960s BLSP had some of the largest presses in Britain and, as well as body shells, produced a wide range of car and commercial components for the Rootes Group including suspension units, petrol tanks and small pressings. The Rootes group by this time included Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam-Talbot, Singer, Commer and Karrier.
However, from the late 1950s the company suffered from industrial unrest, which has been cited as the root of problems leading eventually to the takeover of Rootes by Chrysler. The first strike of 1,500 workers began when a couple of newly-wed night shift workers asked to be transferred to day shift, and became known as the 'Honeymoon Strike'. A spate of 82 mainly unofficial strikes in 1961 caused the loss of over 27,000 man hours at the BLSP plant, which in turn caused the loss of 17,000 man hours at other Rootes plants. Finally a strike led to an ultimatum to all 1000 workers to return to work or be sacked. A recruitment drive was started to replace striking workers but as the strike rolled on 8,000 workers from other factories were made redundant.
Well done unions!
Of course the unions are even now still at it
Grangemouth....lets strike......plant to shut.....er, ok, lets not strike
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