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15 results found for '"Alan Tuffin"' in Contributors.
Post Office dispute (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Bob Holness interviews Alan Tuffin, Post Office union leader, about the amount of time that pay disputes are taking to be rectified, problems with the postal service, rates of pay, and workers’ lack of...
Miners strike - Norman Willis abused in Wales (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the reaction to the treatment given to TUC General Secretary Norman Willis by Welsh miners as he addressed them on picket line violence. With comment as they arrived for the TUC Economic Committee...
Postal strike action halted (1985)
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- Interview; News report
Report on a postal workers strike over new technology, reduced overtime and part time workers being postponed - only to comply with government trade union legislation. Includes interviews with Mount Pleasant...
TUC conference - Employment and wages (1985)
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- News report; Speech
Report on the 1985 TUC conference in Blackpool in 09/85 with the debate focusing on employment issues and wage restraint under a Labour Party government. Speakers are Alan Tuffin, UCW; John Edmonds, GMB....
Labour conference - debate on economy (1985)
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- News report; Speech
Report on a debate on the economy in 10/85 at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth with speeches by trade unions leaders. With speeches from Ron Todd, TGWU; Rodney Bickerstaffe, NUPE; Alan Tuffin, UCW;...
TUC conference speeches on allowing strike ballots (1986)
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- News report; Speech
Mark Mardell reports on the TUC conference (on the Wapping dispute?). Includes excerpts of speeches by TUC leader Norman Willis, Alan Tuffin of the postal workers’ union (Union of Communication Workers?),...
5 day week for postmen (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Alan Tuffin, leader of the Union of Communication Workers on the deal he negotiated with the Post Office for a 5 day week for postal workers so avoiding industrial action over Christmas. Male interviewer not...
Labour conference - day of speeches (1987)
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- News report; Speech
A summary of the day’s speeches at the 1987 Labour Party Conference in Brighton. Includes Labour’s Trade and Industry Spokesman, Bryan Gould; General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers, Alan...
Labour conference - round-up of the day’s speeches (1987)
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- News report; Speech
A report of the day’s events at the 1987 Labour Party Conference in Brighton: Labour MP, Ann Taylor and Shadow Education Secretary, Jack Straw, criticise the educational restructuring proposed by the...
Alan Tuffin on Post Office strike (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with leader of the Union of Communication Workers, Alan Tuffin, on a national strike by Post Office workers â the first in seventeen years. The dispute centres on a bonus payment to new...