This is why Chrysler management want to cut their losses and bolt. But so far only the Linwood stewards, with their clear demand for nationalisation without compensation and their intention to occupy and seize all the company's assets if Chrysler pull out, have rejected any responsibility for the crisis. Ex-left Jack Jones has been busily insisting that the firm can be made viable on the capitalist market, and in a hopelessly confused speech Bob Morris, T&GWU convenor at the Stoke, Coventry plant, declared to a mass meeting on 6 November: I've said and I'll say again, irrespective of left-wing trash, of course we accept a certain responsibility.
This attitude is disastrous in the fight for jobs. It accepts from the start that workers are "partly responsible' for the crisis — an argument the bosses are using everywhere to justify cutbacks in wages, working conditions and manning levels to make their firms 'viable'. All That's it means is that workers compete with each other and more often than not work themselves out of a job. Accepting 'part responsibility' inevitably leads to accepting redundancies. Later on in his speech Morris said as much: I would by hypocritical to offer you any great hope of what the future will bring."
Approval
Unfortunately, this danger was underlined at the mass meeting by the passing of a motion which simply sort approval for the Joint Shop Stewards and Negotiating Committee 'to take any course of action we deem necessary to protect and preserve jobs without specifying any policy or any possible tactics.
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