Fairly sure it was the corporate greed of the metropolitan elite trying to crush the working man....
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I used to go to Leyland trucks fairly often, a guy who worked there in the 70s & 80s told me what it was like
The whole town worked there, they made everything on site in various factories all around the town, a bus service ran round constantly between the sites
There were people that never got off the bus, if a manager got on and questioned them they just said they were getting off at the next stop, got off then back on the next bus for their entire shift
The foundry was where all the black men worked, nobody else was allowed in there, if a white guy walked in they'd all stop work until he was gone, even management wasn't allowed in, they just had to leave them to it
They had aircraft hanger sized engineering shops with 100s of machines and men turning out parts, the managers office was glass and up some stairs so the whole factory was visible
If somebody was taken to the managers office the second he shut the door they'd down tools and start hitting their machines with hammers, the noise was deafening, as soon as he opened the door they'd stop then start when he closed it until he gave up and the lad in for the rollocking came out, thumbs in the air.
I was amazed they kept it open (which it still is) because these days they don't make anything, DAF send the parts from all over Europe by truck, they're assembled into trucks then mostly sent back to Europe on more trucks
