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8 results found for '"Manual workers"' in Keywords.
Harry Overidge on strike action and Royal Free Hospital (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Harry Overidge(?) about the risks to equipment at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and on the possible closure of the hospital, as a result of strike action by maintenance workers. Male...
Peter Adams on hospital maintenance workers’ action (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Peter Adams, electricians’ union negotiator, on the decision to continue work-to-rule and the postponement of hospital maintenance workers’ strike action. Male interviewer not identified.
Manual workers dispute affects economy (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on industrial action by council manual workers and its effect on the British economy. Speaking are: Brian Rushbridge, employers spokesman; Charlie Donnett, union negotiator. Male reporter not...
Dockers vote for strike (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with TGWU union leader Ron Todd about the possibility of dock workers taking strike action across the country, following the highest turnout ever at a union meeting. Seventy-four percent of the...
Dockers return as strike crumbles (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Claire Dalton reports from Hull on the failing docks strike as workers chose to go back to work despite the protestations of Liverpool flying pickets (heard shouting). The original reason for the dispute -...
Docks strike-NAPE view (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Nicholas Finney, director of the National Association of Port Employers, about the three-week-old docks strike. The original reason for the dispute - the scrapping of the National Docks Labour...
Dock strike ends-reaction (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Simon Israel reports on the official end of the national dock strike. Angry striking dockers are preparing to defy their union leaders’ call to go back to work and they’re accusing the TGWU executive of...
Dock strike ends-Ron Todd reacts (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
Press interview with TGWU leader, Ron Todd, in Middlesborough, on the official end of the national dock strike. Angry striking dockers are preparing to defy their union leaders’ call to go back to work and...