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TUC conference speeches on allowing strike ballots (1986)

Genre

News report; Speech

Mark Mardell reports on the TUC conference (on the Wapping dispute?). Includes excerpts of speeches by TUC leader Norman Willis, Alan Tuffin of the postal workers’ union (Union of Communication Workers?),...

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The Business Programme No.72 (1990)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Track 1- A Warsash boatbuilder reports direct from the Tokyo Boat Show. Interview with Peter Gregory, Chairman, Victoria...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Abolition of Fares Fair - Trade union response (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on representative trade unions’ condemnation of the decision of the Law Lords to abolish the Greater London Council’s Fare Fair scheme on London Transport, with the possibility of strike action...

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Jack Dromey on union decision to fine illicit postmen (1978)

Genre

Interview

Jack Dromey of the Transport and General Workers Union, on the decision by the Union of Post Office Workers’ disciplinary panel to fine seven postmen a total of £1400 for the illegal blacking of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jack Jones on worker representation (1977)

Genre

Interview

(Former?) General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, Jack Jones wants to see half of the boards of national industries made up of shop floor workers. Jones insists that people working in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Workers Against Racism march on TUC (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on a Workers Against Racism march in protest at the Trade Union Congress (TUC)'s omission of anti-racism from its conference agenda. Organiser, Fran Eden(?) and Transport and General Workers Union...

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Labour conference - attitude of unions (1980)

Genre

Interview; News report

Vivian White reports on the start of the 1980 Labour Party conference in Blackpool and examines the attitude of trade union delegates prior to debates on the selection of candidates and the party leader....

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Dock strike called (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with John Connolly, national dock’s officer of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), on the decision to call a national dock strike. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Grenville Hawley reacts to red moles at BL’s Cowley plant (1983)

Genre

Interview

Grenville Hawley, Transport and General Workers Union, says there was a review of workers being recruited by British Leyland and that was how discrepancies were uncovered. He says there is no evidence of...

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Jimmy Knapp on further strike action (1993)

Genre

Interview

Angela Rippon interviews National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) General Secretary, Jimmy Knapp over the prospect of a further 24-hour strike following an earlier day of chaos on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio