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Interview about the effect of lorry drivers picketing on the ability of companies to trade and the effect on employees, as they can not move stock around or receive materials.
Interview about the lorry driver pickets on ports and how damaging they can be, whether the strikes are improving, and the effect of the pickets on imports and exports. Also on possible conflicts between...
Report on Parliamentary debate on picketing and lorry drivers strike, including whether to call a state of emergency, prior to a full debate tomorrow. With speeches from Home Secretary Merlyn Rees; Liberal...
Labour MP Eric Heffer opposes the call for a wage and price freeze during the lorry drivers’ strikes, calling them unpractical, and claiming should they go ahead, public opinion would be very much against...
Conservative politician Sir Geoffrey Howe on the economy, says the country is no better off than it was 5 years ago under the Labour Government. As the lorry drivers’ strikes continue, Howe regrets the...
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, John Silkin urges calm, and claims there is no need for panic buying in the current (lorry drivers?) strikes. He voices his optimism a national state of...
Sir Terence Beckett gives a speech to the Road Haulage Association about government and trade union involvement in strikes, says power has gone from unions to individuals.
Alan Law of the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) on proposed law changes and the introduction of tachographs. Female interviewer not identified.
Report on problems delivering essential supplies during the road haulage dispute in 1979, effects of secondary picketing, possible solutions to dispute. Includes interviews with Paul Stringfellow, National...
Interview on possible industrial action by lorry drivers objecting to the compulsory introduction of the tachograph, a device that records a vehicle’s speed and the length of time that it is moving or...
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