Miners strike - Ravenscraig steelworks pickets
- Title
- Miners strike - Ravenscraig steelworks pickets
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- May 1984
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:02:58
- Description
- Reports on the mass picketing by miners at the Ravenscraig steelworks, coal being delivered and the violence that ensued. Includes interview with John Walker from the train drivers union on delivering iron ore to Ravenscraig despite picket lines. Male and female reporters not identified.
- Contributors
- John Walker
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Labour disputes; Miners; Scotland; Violence; Steel industry; NUM; Coal miners; NCB; Steelworks; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Ravenscraig; Strikes (events)
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LBC/IRN, "Miners strike - Ravenscraig steelworks pickets". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0003200305012 (Accessed 24 Apr 2025)