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  • Unfair dismissal claim contested in Strasbourg (1980)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on a claim of unfair dismissal and an infringement of human rights brought by three railway workers - Iain Young, Noel James, and Ronald Webster - to the European Court in Strasbourg after they were...

  • Sheerness steel works picket (1980)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    Report on picketing outside the Sheerness steel works on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent after workers voted to return to work in opposition to their union’s directive. Includes argument between pickets and a...

  • Derek Robinson on dismissal from British Leyland (1980)

    Genre
    Interview; Press conference

    Press interview with Derek Robinson, union shop steward at the British Leyland Longbridge plant in Birmingham, after the workforce refused to take strike action to force his reinstatement following his...

  • Keith Joseph on steel strike (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Industry Secretary, Sir Keith Joseph on the response of the Government and the British Steel Corporation (BSC) to the current steel strike. Interviewer not heard.

  • Bill Sirs on financial implications of steel strike (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Bill Sirs, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), on the financial implications for members of his union of the current steel strike. Male interviewer not identified (poss....

  • Steel strike - Hadfields picket (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Richard Malin(?), Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), on picketing at the Hadfield’s Steel Foundry in Sheffield during the national steel strike. Male interviewer not identified.

  • Steel strike - Robert Scholey on pay offer ballot (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    British Steel Corporation (BSC) executive Robert Scholey on a union directive to Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC) members advising them to spoil ballot papers in connection with a 14.4 percent pay...

  • Steel strike - Bill Sirs on personal pressures (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Bob Holness interviews Bill Sirs, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), about personal pressures during the current steel strike.

  • Steel strike - Bill Sirs on picketing (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Bill Sirs, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), defends the use of mass picketing during the current steel dispute. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White?).

  • Steel strike - Bill Sirs on private sector involvement (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Bill Sirs, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), on the involvement of the private sector in the current steel dispute. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White?).