Drivers cross picket lines at Wapping

Title

Drivers cross picket lines at Wapping

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech; Special

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:03:30

Description

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 Todd; the views of Labour MP, Dennis Skinner, who visited the picket line; actuality of picket line confrontations including strikers pleading with a lorry driver to turn around.

Contributors

Dennis Skinner; Ron Todd; Lindsay Taylor

Keywords

Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Newspapers; TGWU; Police; Electricians; Policing practice; Lorry drivers; Rupert Murdoch; Wapping; News International; Printers; Ron Todd

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