Labour conference - Wage policy rejected

Title

Labour conference - Wage policy rejected

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

2 Oct 1978

Year of production

1978

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:02:32

Description

Report on the Labour Party conference in Blackpool voting against Prime Minister and party leader James Callaghan’s five percent wage policy and reaction to the vote result. With comment from General Secretary of the TGWU union, Moss Evans; Conservative MP, George Gardiner; General Secretary of the Municipal Workers Union, David Basnett (whose union abstained from the vote). Report by Prue Keely.

Contributors

Moss Evans; David Basnett; Prue Keely; George Gardiner

Keywords

Trade unions; Labour Party; TGWU; Wages; Inflation; Wage policy; TUC; Political conferences; James Callaghan; Political parties; Conferences; Collective bargaining; Blackpool

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.