Derek Robinson was a well known A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... Trade Union spokesperson and shop steward within the The British Leyland Motor Corporation (often abbreviated to simply BL), was a Britain in 1968. History BL was created from the merger of many British car manufacturing companies. Many of these brands have since been divested and continue to exist to this day, although the British Leyland name came to... British Leyland (BL) company for much of the 1970s - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css; /**/ 1970s From Wikipedia Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of... 1970s.

BL itself had been the result of a series of mergers between a multitude of different British automobile manufacturers. However, the resulting company, the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), proved to be an unmanageable bethemoth, crippled by ineffectual management and product duplication.

Robinson, as union convener of the Longbridge is an area of Birmingham, England , most notable for the car factory there. It is also on the Cross-City railway line. Berkshire born Herbert AUSTIN, learnt his trade in Australia and whilst working for Birmingham owned Wolseley he was asked to return to the UK to supervise the... Longbridge assembly plant in This article is about the city in England. See also Birmingham, Alabama in the USA, and other places called Birmingham. The city from above Centenary Square. ( Alternative View) Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the second largest and second most ethnically... Birmingham had ascended to be the most powerful shop steward on the British shop floor. With his network of representatives in the 42 different BL plants around the country, he led a long running campaign of Strike has many meanings: A strike is a deliberate absence from work. See strike action. A strike is an unarmed attack with hand, arm or elbow in order to cause harm to an opponent. See strike (attack). Strike is the generic name for a blunt, crushing attack made with or... strikes around the BL empire which were supposedly in protest at the apparent mismanagement which was driving the company into oblivion.

As it became apparent that Robinson's actions were in fact eroding Britain's state-owned motor industry's chances of survival (in 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). Events January January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in... 1975, BL went bankrupt and was Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. Usually it refers to private assets being nationalised, but sometimes it may be assets owned by other levels of government, such as municipalities. Similarly, the opposite of nationalization is usually privatization, but sometimes it may be municipalization. Nationalization that happens... nationalised by the Government). From 1977 the new managing director, Michael Edwardes, made it his business to end the strikes and turn the ailing company around. Robinson was being turned into a hate figure by the A tabloid is a newspaper — especially in the United Kingdom — that uses the tabloid format, which is roughly 23½ by 14¾ inches per spread. This is the smaller of two standard newspaper sizes; the larger newspapers, associated with higher-quality journalism, are called broadsheets. (Ironically, three of the... tabloid press, who dubbed him with the nickname "Red Robbo". According to the BBC, "between 1978 and 1979 Mr Robinson was credited with causing 523 walk-outs at Longbridge, costing an estimated £200m in lost production". Robinson was eventually sacked by BL in November 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. Events January January 1 - United States and the Peoples Republic of China establish diplomatic relations January 4 - State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings. January 7 - Vietnam and Vietnam... 1979. A ballot on a strike in sympathy of the dismissal went 14,000 to 600 against.

External link

• BBC News: The politics of building cars by Brian Wheeler (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4294709.stm)