NUM vote to apologise to retrieve funds

Title

NUM vote to apologise to retrieve funds

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

28 Oct 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:02:31

Description

Report on a vote at the NUM executive conference over whether union leader, Arthur Scargill, should apologise to the courts in order to recover the union’s eight million pound assets seized during the miners’ strike. Includes Scargill casting doubt on whether the courts will lift the union’s receivership. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Arthur Scargill

Keywords

Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Arthur Scargill; NUM; Finance; Coal miners; Ballots; Courts; Legal decisions; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Strikes (events)

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