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Sequestration of SOGAT 82 funds (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Mark Mardell reports on the High Court’s order that SOGAT 82 funds be sequestrated until the union withdraws its order to wholesalers not to touch the Sun and the Times newspapers.The National Graphical...
Police on violence at Wapping (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Wyn Jones on a night of violence at Wapping, where News International printers are striking. He defends the use of horses and riot officers and says it was not NGA and SOGAT...
Brenda Dean on union action (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
General Secretary of SOGAT 82, Brenda Dean says she does not regard the victory (not specified) as a hollow one. If the electricians decide to continue, it will be bad for the movement, but theirs is a...
Provocation by News International, says union leader (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Tony Dubbins of the National Graphical Association) on high levels of provocation within News International during the present dispute. He says (Sunday Times?) staff being...
Handling of printers’ dispute a conspiracy (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. a printers’ representative) denies that many of the sacked printers have jobs to go to, as Rupert Murdoch says. He also says he feels sorry for the electricians who have...
Boycott of Murdoch newspapers urged (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Strong condemnation of Eric Hammond (Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union) by an unidentified male union representative. He expresses satisfaction with the anti-Hammond...
Printworkers vote for industrial action (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Mark Mardell reports on the implications of the SOGAT 82 and National Graphical Association’s Yes vote on industrial action in the printworkers’ dispute at News International in Wapping. With...
Ken Livingstone on GLC plans to forward-fund voluntary organisations (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Ken Livingstone on the Greater London Council’s attempt to reduce a drastic shortfall in funding for voluntary organisations by forward-funding at least some of them to the tune of 20 million pounds before...
Tony Banks on plans to sell off County Hall (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Greater London Council Chairman Tony Banks condemns government plans to sell off County Hall and its contents as obscene and an insult to Londoners. On the subject of Sir Godfrey Taylor’s demanding an...
Ken Livingstone on GLC farewell programme (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Ken Livingstone defends Greater London Council plans to spend a million pounds on a public entertainment programme in the run-up to abolition of the GLC. Female interviewer not identified.