Sheerness steel works picket

Title

Sheerness steel works picket

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:02:57

Description

Report on picketing outside the Sheerness steel works on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent after workers voted to return to work in opposition to their union’s directive. Includes argument between pickets and a lorry driver; interviews with Les Banbury, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), and Taffy Watts, ISTC; vox pop with workers’ wives. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Les Banbury; Taffy Watts

Keywords

Trade unions; Industry; Strikes; Labour disputes; Political protests; Kent; Sheerness; Steel industry; Demonstrations; Iron industry; ISTC

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