Word: leyland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memorable escape route is the Coventry-Stratford-Cotswolds Loop, a drive of 200 to 300 miles that can take a leisurely three or four days, with scarcely a neon sign in sight. (A Leyland Mini rents for about $100 a week, unlimited mileage, and sips petrol as if it were rare brandy.) Coventry has risen nobly from the ashes of its 1940 bombing. Next to the surviving western spire of the late medieval cathedral stands the great modern cathedral with vertical thrusts of rose-colored stone and Graham Sutherland's striking altar tapestry...
...Leyland was originally formed by a jerry-built amalgam of smaller companies, and that is now one reason for its troubles. Its crazy-quilt wage bargaining structure forces management to deal with 58 different bargaining units at its 34 plants; executives are involved in some kind of labor negotiation for nearly nine months of every year. Strikes, many prompted by wage differentials from plant to plant, break out frequently, with or without union authorization. In the first six months of this year, Leyland lost 9.3 million man-hours and production of about 120,000 cars because of strikes, v. losses...
...Leyland's car workers voted to replace this chaotic state of affairs with a single companywide labor pact, to be negotiated by November 1979. The centralized agreement is to provide that all Leyland plants pay the same wage for comparable jobs. Negotiating the contract will not be easy: the unskilled production-line workers who belong to the Transport and General Workers Union argue that they ought to be paid as much as the skilled craftsmen represented by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved...
...Chairman Edwardes, consequently, will have time to try to make sense out of Leyland's disorganized management structure. He succeeds Sir Richard Dobson, who hastened his own departure by making injudicious remarks about Leyland "bribing Wogs"-a reference to allegations of overseas payoffs by Leyland. Dobson spoke at a private dinner party, but a guest tape-recorded his comments, and they were later published...
...quintupled profits in five years to $47.5 million. He won the Guardian Young Businessman of the Year award in 1975. Though he will have to negotiate a companywide pact, Edwardes is a fervent believer in decentralized management who pledges to use "ruthless logic" in organizing executive teams to run Leyland as a group of "profit centers." He had better hurry...