Liverpool funeral workers threaten strike

Title

Liverpool funeral workers threaten strike

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Jun 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:02:24

Description

Simon Capman(?) reports on a dispute between Liverpool City Council and trade unions including the GMB. Funeral workers are threatening to strike with the prospect of the dead being left unburied. The dispute is over a council plan to create redundancies to balance the council books. Includes interview with council leader, Harry Rimmer; Richard Jenkins, Society of Allied Independent Funeral Directors; Alan Dean, deputy leader of the Labour group; Olwen Brown, grandmother of road accident victim.

Contributors

Harry Rimmer; Simon Capman(?); Richard Jenkins; Alan Dean; Olwen Brown

Keywords

Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Cost reduction; Liverpool; Funerals; Liverpool City Council; City councils; GMB; Redundancies; Burials

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