Mining unions

Title

Mining unions

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Feb 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:03:21

Description

Report on mining unions, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM). Includes interviews with Arthur Scargill, NUM, talking about workers who were sacked for conducting union business during work time, and criticising the National Coal Board; Dennis Murphy, NUM, on the proposed closure of Bates Colliery in Northumberland. Male reporter not identified (poss. Mark Mardell).

Contributors

Arthur Scargill; Mark Mardell?; Dennis Murphy

Keywords

Trade unions; NUM; Coal industry; Coal miners; NCB; Northumberland; Dismissal from employment; Mine closures; UDM; Bates Colliery

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