Coal industry cost cutting
- Title
- Coal industry cost cutting
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 22 Jan 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:00:26
- Description
- Energy Minister David Heathcoat-Amory defends the redundancies which will have to be made in the British coal industry, claiming for the pits to become profitable there must be cutbacks and hints at a possible privatisation of the industry. Around 1100 jobs are to go in 4 Yorkshire pits in the latest British Coal cutbacks.
- Contributors
- David Heathcoat-Amory
- Keywords
- Cost reduction; Miners; Yorkshire; Unemployment; Employment; Privatization; Coal industry; Coal miners; Public ownership; British Coal; Redundancies
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