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INLA releases Kirkpatrick relatives (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Eamonn Mallie interviews family friend, Margaret Healey(?), following the release by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) of the relatives of convicted Northern Ireland terrorist and police informer...
Financial Times strike comes to an end (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Report on the end of the Financial Times strike after nine weeks and a ten million-pound loss. Machine minders have negotiated a wage increase. FT chairman Alan Hare says the intervention of the Trades Union...
Len Murray on ten years at head of TUC (1983)
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- Interview
Len Murray, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, says he has spent ten interesting years leading the TUC, during which time he has noticed an increase in membership and a change in the...
Ken Gill calls for more aerospace funding (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Ken Gill, General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, wants the Government to create a new plan for the aerospace industry, because it is losing out to the United States and Europe. He...
Grenville Hawley reacts to red moles at BL’s Cowley plant (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Grenville Hawley, Transport and General Workers Union, says there was a review of workers being recruited by British Leyland and that was how discrepancies were uncovered. He says there is no evidence of...
Ray Buckton against British Railways plan (1983)
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- Interview
Ray Buckton, General Secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), is concerned that the British Rail plan to close down train lines is proving detrimental to the quality...
British Railways plan to cut 17,000 jobs (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker says everything is vague where railway line closures are concerned, and that it is too early to determine whether the 17,000 job cuts will cause a strike. Male interviewer not...
Scargill branded a traitor for criticism of Thatcher and Reagan (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers. He says that by criticising Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, Scargill became a dictator and a friend of the...
Unions react to NCB pit closure plans (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on Sir Norman Siddall’s departure from the National Coal Board, and the ongoing resistance of miners’ unions to pit closure plans. Cardowan union official Jim McCafferty(?) says miners will win...
Arthur Scargill on Ian MacGregor (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Arthur Scargill thinks the National Coal Board will not back down on pit closures following the appointment of Ian MacGregor as Chairman. Male interviewer not identified.