Margaret Thatcher miners strike speech
- Title
- Margaret Thatcher miners strike speech
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- Oct 1984
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:04:53
- Description
- Speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton on the miners’ strike, losses in the coal industry which are being subsidised by public finance, and changes needed to trade union operation and laws.
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Wages; Conservative Party; Political conferences; Public finance; Conferences; NUM; Coal industry; Coal miners; Ballots; NCB; Labour law; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Law reform; Brighton; Strikes (events)
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