]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3211Letters exchanged between the Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards Committee and trade unions (including the Trades Union Congress, Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions and Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers), news media (direct correspondence with the New Statesman and general press releases), company management and others.
Contents include discussion of trade union recognition, meeting reports and minutes, exchanges with Members of Parliament and distribution of the Lucas Briefing.]]>2017-07-19T10:41:43-04:00
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Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards Committee correspondences
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3208Counter-Information Services describing economic trends and workers resistance at Lucas Aerospace. ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3207single side A4 flyer bulletin updated info on redundancy and wage negotiation ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3206Essay by Mike Cooley, included in The Political Economy of Science: Ideology of/in Natural Sciences, Ed. Hillary and Steven Rose. ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
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Contradictions of Science and Technology in the Productive Process
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]]>An abridged version of the alternative Corporate Plan produced by the Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards' Committee. The pamphlet includes a description of Lucas Industries, current trends in industry, projected economic trends, and a summary of proposals for socially useful production at Lucas Aerospace.]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3202duplicate of stapled photocopied newsletter with additional 2 pages at the end (9 x A4 pages) Summer Edition, news and analysis Ford Workers Group (The Combine), accounts of meetings (cartoon, dialogue), workers' counterpart to Ford management bulletins. Last 2 pages editorial on royal wedding, satirical poem, appeal for contributions acknowledging women's domestic labour supporting Halewood worker
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3201A pamphlet based on the proceedings of 'Defence cuts and Labour's industrial strategy', a February 21, 1976 conference called by the Labour Committee of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The pamphlet reproduces 4 speeches from the conference, and includes a foreword by Judith Hart and an introduction. The speeches reproduced are as follows:
* Frank Blackaby: The burden of defence spending and the problems of transition
* Mike Cooley: The search for alternatives - the Lucas Aerospace workers' plan
* Stuart Holland: Labour's industrial strategy and defence conversion
* Robin Cook: The threat to peace and the need for disarmament]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
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Defence Cuts and Labour's Industrial Strategy: a Labour CND Pamphlet
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3200Essay by Mike Cooley, senior design Engineer, and Tass Chairman, on the four contradictions of a technologically advanced society. ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
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III. Design, technology and production for social needs: An initiative by Lucas Aerospace workers
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3199stapled photocopied newsletter (approx 8 A4 pages). Summer Edition, news and analysis Ford Workers Group (The Combine), accounts of meetings (cartoon, dialogue), workers' counterpart to Ford management bulletins]]>2018-07-16T07:14:04-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3198newsletter published by Ford UK workers group. News from international Ford plants, "Hunger strike in Spain", Halewood, Dagenham, Langley, Daventry, Southampton, Valencia. Includes black and white photographs, satirical cartoon. Solidarity with women's strike with Trust Forte linked with Ford: Image of sacked chambermaids Grosvenor Hotel. "Smash the Penalty Clauses"]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3194A booklet describing the Transport & General Workers' Union's strategy for converting sections of the defence industry to alternative, socially useful forms of productions]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
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A Better Future...For Defence Jobs!: A TGWU Strategy for Arms Conversion
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3193a5 sticker 'City Limits/ the different guide/ to what's happening/ in London']]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3192Early 1980s issue of Combine News Lucas, a newspaper produced by the shop stewards of Lucas Aerospace. Features articles on proposed wage cuts, as well as a report on previous wage increases won by workers struggles at Lucas Aerospace. Features reports from the LACSSC Alternative Corporate Plan, including a road-rail bus and hybird cars. Also includes predictions for how corporate use of technology will be used to redundancies and increased workplace surveillance.]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/31902017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3189August 1977 issue of Combine News Lucas, a newspaper produced by the shop stewards of Lucas Aerospace. Features articles on the 'Corporate Plan' and the management response to the Combine, as well as reports from Wolverhampton, Luton, Birmingham, and Hemel and Willesden. Also features articles on lockouts, wage cuts, job cuts, ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3188Report on Conference at Sheffield Town Hall on the Lucas arms conversion initiative; plenary, workshop reports, conference papers and list of delegates. ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
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Local Authority Conference on Economic & Arms Convention
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3187Pamphlet giving an account of efforts around the Lucas Aerospace Workers 'Corporate Plan', allowing workers to draw their own conclusions about the role of the government. ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:44-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3185March 1975 issue of Combine News Lucas. Features articles on real wage cuts at Lucas Aerospace, health and safety at work, pensions talks, debates on nationalization, and a meeting with Tony Benn. Also features articles on the response of management and trade unions to the struggle at Lucas Aerospace.]]>2017-07-19T10:41:45-04:00
]]>https://maydayrooms.omeka.net/items/show/3184Documenting the history of the LucasPlan, outlining relations between the committee, trade unions, corporations and the government. ]]>2017-07-19T10:41:45-04:00
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Democracy versus the Circumlocution Office, IWC Pamphlet No. 65