Dismissal notices covering production workers at the company's Coventry factories, the notices are to take effect on Jamary 30, when 390 fitters and 69 youths became rodundanteA further 120 somi-skilled employoes and labourers will be leaving the company this Friday with about 200 staff and clerical workers already under notice, The company is to roduce its labour force from 11,000 to 8,000 by July this year due to lack of aircraft ordors.
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: 1391 65,000 workers at the French nationalised Renault plant have won for themselves four weeks holiday with pay. Talks with management are also going on to provide a return to the pre-war 40-hour week standard — withavt loss of pays Part of tho new agreement is that all Eenault workers will now be entitled to a day off with pay in the event of th. death of grandparents, grandchildren, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law, The French COT Metalworkers' Union is to press other employers to concede similar concessions, This makes nonsense of the Ford managements claim thut thoy are faced with competition in Burope because of high labour costs. Car workers in this country can use the Renault precedent as a rofarence point for their own demands,