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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