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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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