Water pipe bursts during workers strike
- Title
- Water pipe bursts during workers strike
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
- TX Date
- 24 Jan 1983
- Year of production
- 1983
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- Duration
- 00:03:25
- Description
- Report on the first casualty of the national water workers strike, a burst water pipe at Eltham Road in London. Local residents talks about how they’re going to cope. Station Officer at Lee Green fire station, Peter Vexter, comments on the flooding there. Water sounds heard. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Peter Vexter
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Floods; Strikes; Labour disputes; Wages; GMWU; Water supply; Drinking water; Fire stations; Thames Water Authority; Water conservation; Water companies; Public utilities
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