Postal strike action halted
- Title
- Postal strike action halted
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 2 Apr 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:02:23
- Description
- Report on a postal workers strike over new technology, reduced overtime and part time workers being postponed - only to comply with government trade union legislation. Includes interviews with Mount Pleasant branch secretary Shaun Ryan and John Devereux(?); General Secretary of Union of Communication Workers, Alan Tuffin. Male reporter not identified (poss. Neil Mainland).
- Contributors
- Alan Tuffin; Neil Mainland?; Shaun Ryan; John Devereux(?)
- Keywords
- Legislation; London; Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Post offices; Postmen; Technological change; Post Office; Employment; Ballots; UCW; Part time employment; Mount Pleasant (sorting office)
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