Switchboard operators’ wage dispute
- Title
- Switchboard operators’ wage dispute
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 10 Mar 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:02:33
- Description
- Union representative Vic Palmer on the hospital switchboard operators’ wage dispute due to their request for a 15 percent pay rise, above the Government’s limit of 10 percent. The operators are to strike, whilst emergency calls still go through to a centre where they will be answered. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Vic Palmer
- Keywords
- Strikes; Labour disputes; Wages; Labour relations; James Callaghan; Hospitals; Prime ministers; Hospital patients; Telecommunications personnel
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LBC/IRN, "Switchboard operators’ wage dispute". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0003800280014 (Accessed 15 May 2025)