LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Grunwick factory dispute

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

11 Jul 1977

Year of production

1977

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Duration

00:03:05

Description

Margaret Thatcher speaks about the industrial action being taken at the Grunwick factory. She would like mass picketing to cease and is considering reform to the laws of picketing or working with trade unions to produce a code of practice on numbers allowed to picket. Taken from BBC Panorama television programme. The interviewer is David Dimbleby.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; David Dimbleby; BBC

Keywords

London; Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Working conditions; Television programmes; Labour law; Law reform; Grunwick; Factory workers; Panorama; Industrial plants; Employment legislation; Strikes (events); Grunwick Strike (1976-1978)

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