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Peter Adams on hospital electricians’ strike (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Peter Adams, electricians’ union negotiator, on the postponement of hospital electricians’ strike and new offer. Male interviewer not identified.
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.
Theatre nurses’ dispute and its effect on hospital services (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the personnel officer at Greenwich District Hospital in south London, Denis Salmon, about the current theatre nurses’ dispute and its effect on hospital services. The action was caused by...
Sir John Methven on the shorter working week (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir John Methven, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), on the effect of reducing the working week on unemployment. Male interviewer not identified.
Glyn Phillips on executive support for pay restraint (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview at the National and Local Government Association (NALGO) conference in Brighton, with union president, Glyn Phillips, on Chancellor Denis Healey’s call for further pay restraint for the local...
Equity re-structuring row (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with an unidentified male spokesman (poss. Peter Plouviez) for the Equity actors union, on in-fighting over attempts to re-structure the organisation. Actress Vanessa Redgrave and her involvement...
Hospital workers’ low pay and reduction of the working week (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male (possibly representative of National Union of Public Workers (NUPE) on health service workers/hospital workers being paid below the national average; proposal of increase in pay; minimum...
Denis Healey’s budgets (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male (possibly Conservative or CBI spokesman) on Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey’s past budget and forthcoming budget; inflation; social responsibility and economic health; pay...
Bank of England statement and pay restraint (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with an unidentified male speaker (poss. TUC chairman David Basnett) about a Bank of England statement advocating a halving of wage increases in the 1978-79 bargaining round; pay restraint; incomes...
Job losses at the Clydebank Singer Factory (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Report on reaction to the announcement of workforce redundancies at the Singer factory in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland; trade unions trying to save jobs; Gavin Laird of the electricians’ union:...