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The root cause of the strikes, which cost BL £44 million and at one time led to 18,500 workers being laid off, has on the workers side been the erosion of pay diffcrentials for skilled workers through successive incomes policies and the £6 limit. At SU Carburettors, where the toolroom workers negotiated a £5.50 rise last April with the promise of a review in December to bring them up to rates equivalent to toolToon workes omer rev ane plants, this meant particularly rough JustIce The December increase was ruled out by management and the Department of Employment on the basis that it broke the twelve month gap between pay settlements demanded under the £6 limit - although 125 members of the white collar union Hysterical the moment won this battle. And the success for management of participation is far from guaranteed, since only last week the workers at the Rover Solihull plant - where 400 toolmakers were on strike for three weeks — voted by a majority of 800 to reject worker participamakers disputes. The fact is that