British auto (UPI) Nearly 19,000 auto Workers walked off the job yesterday, closing down one of the nation's largest automobile factories in yet another blow to Britain's strike shaken economy. Employees at the British Leyland Company's Longbridge factory in Birmingham Joined hundreds of thou Sands of other workers in strikes that have crippled hospital services, halted garbage collection and deprived some 750,000 children of school. Industrial turmoil spread to dozens of essential services and industries and and involved slow downs and on and-off strikes by an estimated 1.5 Million -workers. In the latest dispute, nearly 19,000 workers at British Leyland's Longbridge plant voted to strike to ' protest management's refusal to pay productivity bonuses. ' Charging that "the only language these renegers know is the language of'force," union leaders threatened to extend the strike to all of British Leyland's 36 plants by next Monday. British Leyland, which makes Lohdon's famous double-decker buses as well as a wide range of cars including Jaguars and Rovers, said it could not pay its so-called "parity" or productivity premiums of up to $2O per week because productivity was far behind target. The state-run company also warned that it could not survive a prolonged strike at all of its plants. But it was only the latest in Britain's long list of labor woes. K===9lK:=M=7c3l It====4K====ol==tlC=ll gr 2, Me V 3451/14 Y 49/11 / 524 il4wriff. to on,a/ice tité tFate eFate4 a real d•MeCe/44. :amma.mom.: :mmusi* :amumwm.mma: :smimmomomm: :.•••••••mm: auto workers walk out Pickets surrounded the British Leyland auto plant in company's refusal to grant increased pay for higher Birmingham, England, yesterday. The workers voted production. overwhelmingly to go out on strike in protest of the Walkouts and slowdowns by public service workers demanding pay increases of up to 40 percent con tinued to disrupt hospital, am bulance, school and garbage collection services across thd country. Mti Xeler,'6, gilt: gaa 'd. ==t=4 An estimated 750,000 children were affected by a custodians' strike that kept 1,500 schools closed. Most hospitals were forced to admit only emergency cases and officials expressed growing concern over the health hazard posed by the piles of RENTING FOR IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY, SUMMER AND FALL •Free Tennis Courts •Free Parking •Free Centre Line Bus Passes •Gas Heating and Cooking included in Rent •Air Conditioning Brandeis Unktersity JACOB HIATT INSTITUTE IN ISRAEL What does it offer you? • a semester of study in Israel in the Fall term • coursework in English on the political, economic and social development of Israel and in its language, history and archaeology • a strong program of Hebrew language study • important internship opportunities In social service agencies in Jerusalem . o field trips, study trips, interviews with prominent Israelis, a kibbutz visit • financial aid is available Application deadline: March 15 For further information, see your Study Abroad advisor or write: Office of International Programs Brandeis University 0 ' Waltham, Massachusetts 02154 rmt4 (617) 647-2422 Brandeis University admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, oge or handicap to all its programs and activities rotting garbage lying uncollected on London's streets. They warned that a threatened strike by water workers would pose another health hazard and force Londoners to boil their water before drinking it. 238-2600 424 Waupelani Drive enn State Assocuat Wanamaker elected Assembly president B.J. Wanamaker (Bth-geophysics) was elected president of Academic Assembly last night Wanamaker, who was vice president since last spring, said she would urge the Faculty Senate to pass the grievance procedure the assembly proposed last night. She will replace Randy Albright as president in the spring. The grievance procedure proposal is a 21-point plan "designed as an alternative for students when the procedure already existing gives them no satisfaction of their grievance," the first point says. Under the current system of filing a grievance, Albright said, a student who had a complaint about a grade, for example, would first speak with the faculty member's department head and then the professor's dean. After going through that channel, the proposal would allow the student to take the complaint Roadblocks to ethics bill seen Bills delaying implementation of the state ethics bill should pass in one or both houses next week, according to Senator J. Doyle Corman. Corman introduced the senate version of the bill, which would simply delay until August the part of the bill that requires candidates to submit disclosures. The ethics commission is not yet ready to accept disclosures, but elections boards throughout the state have been ordered to accept petitions only. from those candidates who have submitted disclosures. FALL TERM 1979 HOUSING AND FOOD SERVICE CONTRACTS Fall Term 079 Housing and Food Service Contract Cards With Related Information will be Available At The Assignment Office for Campus Residences, 101 Shields Building, as of Monday, February 15, 1979, for University Park Students Residing Off Campus. Students Presently Residing in the Residence Halls will Receive Their Housing Contract Cards and Re lated Information in Their Mail Boxes on the Same Date. The Daily Collegian Thursday, Feb. 8,1979- to a board of two students, two faculty members and• a chairman the vice president for undergraduate studies. If the board decides to hear the case, both the student and faculty member will submit written statements and answer questions posed by the board in a confidential hearing. The assembly had some disagreement on the question of whether the board's decision should be final once the University president signed it, or merely a recommendation. They rejected making the board's decision a recom mendation by a vote of 7-12. By a vote of 10-6 the assembly made the board's decision final. The assembly will now submit the proposal to the Faculty Senate, which can approve, reject - or amend the proposal. In other areas, Corman said that Gov. Thornburgh will probably submit his 1979-80 budget by 'the first week of March. Corman said rulings passed in the legislature last year should allow the state government to continue func tioning if the legislature repeats its extended budget sessions of 1977. However, these provisions would not aid Penn State, he said. Corman also said that he is extremely impressed with Gov. Thornburgh's cabinet selections so far. "He has a tremendous, well-qualified group of people," Corman said. NOTICE —by Bruce Ellis —by Rand Stewart
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