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  • Mark Mardell from the NUT conference (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Mark Mardell reports from the NUT conference, where new guidelines have been handed out to teachers on how many hours they should work and what they should do after the Government job descriptions are...

  • Kenneth Baker deplores striking teachers (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Secretary of State for Education, Kenneth Baker on the recent wages and working conditions disputes with the teaching unions. Baker claims the teachers are out of sympathy with the country, and that they...

  • NUT conference ends (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    As the teaching unions lock horns with the Government over pay disputes, the NUT conference is covered. The hardliners had wanted teachers to stop covering for absent colleagues, but the move was rejected....

  • NUT to strike in election run-up (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Doug McAvoy of the NUT defends the decision to carry out industrial action in the run-up to the General Election. McAvoy claims that meetings are being set up to discuss the measures taken, but teachers’...

  • Robert Haslam on the future of British Coal (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Chairman of British Coal, Sir Robert Haslam on the industry’s good trading results, and his optimism for the future. The aim of the coal industry is to make a profit, with which it will not need Government...

  • Customs officers on strike (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Customs officers are on strike. Garry Turvey of the Freight Transport Association says the strikes are causing enormous damage, particularly to the country’s export contracts. He says the customs officers...

  • CPSA taken over by Militant Tendency (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    The CPSA (Civil Service) union has been taken over by the group, Militant Tendency, but General Secretary John Ellis says they will not be bullied into action by them. Male interviewer not identified.

  • Smithfield Market job candidate nonmination row (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with an unidentified male speaker on a Smithfield Market dispute that has arisen over the challenge to the 51 year-old practice of the TGWU nominating candidates for any vacant posts. Female...

  • Doug McAvoy on teachers’ dispute (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Doug McAvoy of the NUT defends the decision to strike and to continue the industrial action during the run-up to the General Election. He says he does not expect the Government to restore negotiating...

  • Margaret Thatcher interview (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Peter Murphy interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Discussion of the Zircon spy satellite project, which was leaked by Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman. On the timing of the next election...