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★ Industrial Action

I really am gasping like a fish out of water.  And I’m in pain.  The Miners’ Film, Youtube 46.37, miner, Cinema Action 1974/5

 

Miners’ ban on overtime a tactic to reduce coal stocks November ’73 to January ’74.  ibid.  caption      

 

They [miners] are being restricted to negotiate a reasonable wage directly with the employer.  ibid.  miner  

 

It we fail, everyone else fails.  ibid.  

 

They [police] are just stopping and harassing all the time.  ibid. 

 

1954: 699,000 miners; 1974: 252,000 Miners.  ibid.    

 

81% of miners vote for strike action Jan/Feb 1974.  ibid.  

 

 

Dockers fight for the right to work.  Arise Ye Workers: The Dockers’ Fight, caption, 1973

 

We believe that the way it’s been handled in our industry is an example of employers’ greed.  ibid.  docker

 

These unregistered docks are a sore problem in relation to our industry.  ibid.    

 

Mass workers’ action: we march on Pentonville.  ibid.  caption  

 

The five of us was put in [prison] by a political court and it was the trade union movement that got us out.  ibid.  docker    

 

 

‘What they are scared of is a redistribution of power and wealth in this country.’  Strike: Inside the Unions I, Mick Lynch, BBC 2023

 

During the final months of 2022 Britain was engulfed in a cost of living crisis.  Millions of working people in need of a pay rise turned to trade unions.  And at this critical moment in their history, unions have opened their doors to cameras.  ibid.  

 

This is the biggest wave of strikes the country has seen in decades.  ibid.  

 

There are now threatened strikes by teachers, postal workers, civil servants, and right across the NHS.  ibid.

 

 

In the midst of the UK’s new Winter of Discontent the government and unions are deadlocked.  As the surge of strikes spreads and moves into its most intense phase yet we’re inside the setbacks and victories in the biggest industrial struggle for a generation.  Strike: Inside the Unions II

 

Amazon employees in Coventry … The first official UK Amazon strike.  ibid. 

 

In South London the Abellio bus drivers are on their seventeenth day of strike action over pay and better working conditions.  ibid.        

 

February 2023: 348,000 days lost to industrial action in the UK.  ibid.

 

For the Royal College of Nursing an escalation of strikes is also on the agenda.  ibid.

 

Abellio: An 18% increase.  ibid.    

 

 

Austin, Minnesota, 1986: ‘Enough is enough.  We want jobs and justice.’  American Dream, 1990, Jesse Jackson to meeting of Hormel strikers

 

Geo A Hormel & Co: In 1984 declared profits of $29.5 million.  That year Hormel cut wages from $10.69 to $8.25 per hour claiming the need to stay competitive.  ibid.  captions    

 

Jim Guyete president Local Union P-9: ‘Their pride is hurt because they can’t fulfil the needs of their family and they’ve somehow got to go on welfare programs.  People are very angry, hurt, upset, frustrated.’  ibid.  

 

‘The company strategy is a clear one.  They want to freeze us out.  They want to starve us out.’  ibid.  

 

571 workers were fired at Hormel’s other plants for honoring P-9’s picket line.  ibid.  caption  

 

 

With the coal strike now in its 32nd week, Ian MacGregor and Arthur Scargill are still a long way apart.  World in Action: The Coal War, ITV 1984

 

Ten years ago Ian MacGregor took on the mighty American Miners’ Union and broke them in the coal-rich western states … Mr MacGregor and Mr Scargill then have both tasted victory and now they seem just as determined to win again.  ibid. 

 

Kentucky 1974: A company foreman opened fire on pickets after a year-long strike.  ibid.  

 

 

The Wilberforce Settlement had recognised the special physical discomforts and dangers of the miner’s life.  But by ’73 average earnings in the coal fields had fallen behind the national figure of £38 per week.  This Week, re Winter Dispute 1973/4, Thames TV 1978

 

The coal board made an offer which was bound to be rejected … The miners were in no mood to be placated or to respond to appeals to their national duty.  ibid.    

 

 

One strike off; another one threatened.  And this was supposed to be the age of the train.  TV Eye, Thames TV 1982    

 

Aslef have never agreed to give up the eight-hour day first negotiated in 1919.  ibid.

 

It’s not just money that’s at the basis of the dispute.  Flexible rostering would mean 4,000 fewer drivers.  ibid.

 

The unions have seen many jobs go in the last ten years.  ibid.

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