What work is available should be calculated by elected committees of Chrysler workers and shared out amongst the whole workforce with no loss of pay. Instead of Chrysler's phoney "worker participation schemes - management were willing to pay their workers two lump sums of £50 to get them to take responsibility for Chrysler's crisis - management must be challenged to open their books to these elected workers' committees in the factories to Even if Chrysler is bankrupt, it is necessary to know the extent of the crisis and the plans for investment, sales and redundancies in order to prepare for the nationalisation under workers control of the company to defend all jobs.
In the Cowley Assembly Plant of British Leyland, management recently offered to open their books to 'prove' their case for mass reup. dundancies - 'voluntary", of course - and But they were rapidly slammed shut again when shop stewards demanded that the books should be inspected by an elected The ruling class will fiercely defend 'business secreev because it tears that exposure of the wheeling and dealing of capitalism its waste and cut-throat competition, will simply prove to the workers the need not for sackings but for nationalisation under workers' control. At the same time - as is happening both in ChryFour thousand Chrysler workers from the Stoke, Cove ber. They were told by Duncan Simpson, AUEW senio sier combine stewards wholehearted support for the cerend tRe rent to work sler and British Leyland - they will put forward participation schemes in an attempt to incorporate senior stewards in the plans of management and thus leave the shop floor leaderless when confronted with mass sackings and speedThe threat to the jobs of 25,000 Chrysler employees is the most serious attack on the