TUC conference - Review of agreements

Title

TUC conference - Review of agreements

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

Sep 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:05:32

Description

Review of agreements made, and issues debated, at the TUC conference in Brighton including support for the miners’ strike and ban on union membership at the GCHQ. With speeches by NUM leader Arthur Scargill; Eric Hammond, EETPU leader; retiring TUC General Secretary, Len Murray; Gerry Gillman, Society of Civil and Public Servants; incoming TUC General Secretary Norman Willis. Also singing of Auld Lang Syne by delegates. Male reporter not identified (poss. Neil Mainland).

Contributors

Arthur Scargill; Len Murray; Eric Hammond; Norman Willis; Gerry Gillman; Neil Mainland?

Keywords

Legislation; Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; TUC; Civil service; Civil servants; Conferences; NUM; Coal miners; Labour law; Civil and political rights; GCHQ; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Law reform; Len Murray; Brighton; Trade union members; Iron and steel workers; Retirment; Norman Willis; Strikes (events); Collective agreements

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