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TUC urges newspaper boycott (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Mark Mardell reports on electricians’ union leader Eric Hammond’s visit to the Trades Union Congress, during which he was jeered and booed by striking printworkers. Tony Dubbins of the NGA says throwing...
Drivers cross picket lines at Wapping (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special; Speech
Lindsay Taylor reports on lorry drivers’ defiance of transport union TGWU leader Ron Todd as they cross the picket lines at News International’s Wapping plant. Includes news conference statement by Ron...
Refusenik journalists at Gray’s Inn Road (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Unidentified female reporter visits the former Sunday Times headquarters in Gray’s Inn Road, Holborn, and talks to the journalists - dubbed the refuseniks - who have yet to decide whether to relocate or...
Electricians sell out in Wapping dispute? (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Mark Mardell reports how, in the Wapping News International dispute, the electricians have sold the printers down the river. The General Council of the TUC met to discuss this, but their instructions to the...
Court sequestrates SOGAT 82 funds (1986)
- Genre
- News report
Tim Knight reports on the court decision to sequestrate SOGAT 82 funds over the union’s refusal to obey a court order instructing it to stop blacking Wapping newspapers in the News International...
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...
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...
Labour local government conference (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on Labour’s local government conference on rate capping. Party leader Neil Kinnock expresses support for the Lambeth and Liverpool left-wingers, but opposition to their policy of confrontation....
GLC forward funding plans (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on Greater London Council plans to forward fund certain organisations before its abolition on 31st March. GLC leader Ken Livingstone talks about the work going into this. Conservative group leader...
GLC forward funding plans (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on Greater London Council plans to forward fund projects and organisations before its abolition. GLC leader Ken Livingstone believes such a cross-council, cross-party package offers the best solution....