The Lucas Plan: A New Trade Unionism in the Making?Account of the evolution of the Lucas plan, a new trade unionism approach in the UK to counteract redundancy by transforming the Lucas defence industry and aerospace industry into a workers controlled industrial enterprise developing socially more useful industrial products such as a road-rail bus and a heat-pump - traces the set-up of the Shop Stewards' Combine Committee, the successful collective bargaining for employment security, wages and other working conditions, and workers participation. Chronology (1965-1982), illustrations and references. |
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Aerospace Combine Committee aerospace industry aircraft alternative Plan alternative products AUEW ballscrew Birmingham Bradford Burnley CAITS campaign centre co-ordination collective bargaining Combine Committee Combine delegates Combine executive Combine meeting Combine's company's Corporate Plan Coventry CSEU Department of Industry disarmament discussions Electric energy engineering Ernie Scarbrow factory Gerald Kaufman heat pump Hemel Hempstead ideas initiative interest involved Joint Forum Kaufman Liverpool London Lucas Aerospace Combine Lucas Combine Lucas Industries Lucas management Lucas Plan Lucas stewards Lucas workers Lucas's major management's manual workers Marston Green ment Mike Cooley negotiations official pensions plant policies political problems proposals redundancies road-rail vehicle Rolls Royce Rotax secretary shop stewards shop-floor workers skills social needs socialist socially useful products strategy TASS TASS members technical Tony Benn trade unionists trade-union trade-union organization trades councils wages Willesden Wolverhampton workforce Wortley Hall