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Jaguar lay-offs
8 November 1974
Two thousand assembly workers at Jaguar's Coventry plant were laid off yesterday because of a strike at another British Leyland factory. The strike in the paint shop at the corporation's car body plant at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, at first involved 250 paint shop men in an argument over a shift payment.
They were yesterday joined by about 1,000 production workers.
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