Liverpool funeral workers threaten strike
- Title
- Liverpool funeral workers threaten strike
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- Jun 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:02:24
- Description
- Simon Capman(?) reports on a dispute between Liverpool City Council and trade unions including the GMB. Funeral workers are threatening to strike with the prospect of the dead being left unburied. The dispute is over a council plan to create redundancies to balance the council books. Includes interview with council leader, Harry Rimmer; Richard Jenkins, Society of Allied Independent Funeral Directors; Alan Dean, deputy leader of the Labour group; Olwen Brown, grandmother of road accident victim.
- Contributors
- Harry Rimmer; Simon Capman(?); Richard Jenkins; Alan Dean; Olwen Brown
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Cost reduction; Liverpool; Funerals; Liverpool City Council; City councils; GMB; Redundancies; Burials
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