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Derek Robinson: A titan of trade unionism who never sold out
By GRAHAM STEVENSON, with the assistance of ANDY CHAFFER and GEORGE HICKMAN
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MUCH comment on Derek Robinson, after his recent death at the age of 90, led with the sheer lie that he was responsible for over 500 disputes at Longbridge.
Given that there were several hundred shop stewards at the plant and each could call workers out long before the convener, let alone management, could be aware of it, this was a travesty of reality.
Coventry-based Harry Urwin, deputy general secretary of the TGWU, generally thought of as being more to the centre-right than to the left, once described the disputes machinery at Leyland as “a disgrace to the British motor industry.”
His view was that, far from being the malingerers that the Sun disparaged the workforce as, British Leyland workers had to work harder than any other car workers and faced greater dangers due to old-fashioned equipment arising from decades of underinvestment.
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