Ballot over NUM breakaway union

Title

Ballot over NUM breakaway union

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Oct 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:03:37

Description

Notts NUM leader Roy Lynk on the forthcoming ballot of mineworkers in Nottinghamshire and South Derbyshire to decide whether there should be a breakaway union. Says the ballot was inevitable following the coal strike, when the union did not allow a national vote, and recent change in union rules shifting power to the national leadership and Arthur Scargill. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Roy Lynk

Keywords

Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Derbyshire; Arthur Scargill; NUM; Ballots; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Nottinghamshire; Trade union members; Strikes (events)

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