Pressed Steel Management Tries to Impose New Wage Scheme

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A plan which is supposed to "modernise and simplify" the wage structure covering the 4,000 car body workers at Pressed Steel Fisher, Cowley, is running into difficulty because of the resistance of the AEU. The employers hope that the AEU will be persuaded to co-operate in operating the scheme which has been drawn up by the management cunsultant firm, Urwick, Orr and Partners. Because the AEU is refusing to beck the scheme the TGWU and ETU have also withdrawn their support. The decision not to co-operate was taken by the union's Oxford district committee, despite the advice of the ARU divisional organiser, Mr. Roger Horner, who is in favour of co-operating. The company has offered the services of a consultant to explain job evaluation techniques to the district committee - which must be the ultimate in the attempts to get even militant trade union organisations to co-operate in the increasing exploitation of workers in large factories.