Trade union leaders respond to Geoffrey Howe’s first Budget
- Title
- Trade union leaders respond to Geoffrey Howe’s first Budget
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:03:21
- Description
- Report on response by trade union leaders to Chancellor Geoffrey Howe’s first Budget as they leave a meeting to discuss it, with concerns over implications for pay and rising prices. Reaction from Moss Evans of the TGWU; David Basnett, GMWU; Terry Duffy, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW); Frank Chapple, Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU); Clive Jenkins of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS). Vivian White reports.
- Contributors
- Clive Jenkins; Moss Evans; David Basnett; Vivian White; Frank Chapple; Terry Duffy
- Keywords
- Budgets; Trade unions; Government; TGWU; Wages; Prices; Conservative Party; GMWU; AUEW; ASTMS; Geoffrey Howe; National budgets; Value Added Tax; Standard of living; EETPU
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