As previously posted I have quite a bit of paperwork from a Vickers technical sub contract representative 1942 to 46. There are details of day to day procurement of aircraft frames and lots of other parts from various sub contractors. There are numerous complaints about delays in supplying the agreed contracted parts but these all seem to be the result of shortage of material. There are also toing and froings from Vickers to sub contractors on the quality or lack of it on supplied parts. There is no mention of strike action in any of these or sabotage. The quality issues relate to mistakes made in manufacture i.e. wrong size holes that sort of thing. Of coarse the figures on strikes as reported by various posters are fact although it seems that this did not have a significant effect on production. I can only comment on Spitfire production but it seems to have run fairly smoothly.
Its interesting that the law forbidding strikes does not seemed to be enforced? There was a question raised earlier about the punishment for sabotage, I would have thought that if proven was probably a capital offence?
Attached are a few examples interestingly enough one relates to delays from EA.
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Industrial action, British aircraft industry, WWII?

Have you read the thread title? frankly nothing you have said so far has made any significant contribution to this thread. You have been and are becoming increasing offensive and irrelevant.

I dont the skill to make them would be an issue considering that aircraft right up until 1939 were nearly all made of wood. The Spitfire was a very difficult aircraft to build and they managed to turn out 20K plus of those. I am sure had the Mosquito been BC aircraft of choise they would have soon geared up to making them.
Its always been argued that the Germans lost out in the Bombing war because they did not have a big heavy bomber.
I think the policy at the time was to drop the biggest tonnage and cause the most destruction,and the Lancaster was the master of the heavy bomb load. I think the US would have well advised to scrap all their B17s and switch to Mosquitoes though it carried just as large a bomb load as a B17.
The Mosquito was clearly ahead of its time, todays Bombers are small fast and have precise targeting.
Scrap the Typhoon and start building Mosquitoes. :D:diablo:

I think you just answered the original question. Its seems it didnt stop stikes though over 900 in the first year in the article you posted.

Alan

I have quite allot of paper work from a Supermarrine rep 1941 to 46 and although there seem to be delays caused by shortages of material there was never any mention of industrial disputes. I thought it was illegal to go on strike during the War? I believe there was some skiving for want of a better word but I think that the factories actually had staff that would check up on absent workers. I seem to remember there was a program on the subject recently.