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Car workers go back
21 November 1959
GRIEVANCES TO BE INVESTIGATED
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 20
The 220 press shop workers at the Nuffield Metal Products factory, Washwood Heath, who have been on unofficial strike for four days, agreed today to take the advice of their union, the Transport and General Workers, and resume work on Monday so that their grievances over piece- work payments can be investigated. Because of the stoppage 4,000 other British Motor Corporation employees have been laid off at Birmingham and Oxford.
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