Britain's Conservative Government Curtails The Power Of The Trade Unions

Описание: (6 Feb 1987) 8706D - UK: STRIFE (w082428)
Shows: May 1979, Margaret Thatcher enters Number 10 Downing
Street: violent clashes on Grunwick picket line in 1977:
Trades Union Congress March through London in 1971: rubbish
heaped up in London's Leicester Square during refuse
collectors' strike: Margaret Thatcher speaking: violent
scenes outside Wapping printing plant, January 1987:
Conservative Party Election Manifesto: London March in
support of the miners 1984: Ian MacGregor speaking: Arthur
Scargill speaking: violent clashes at Orgreave Pit 1985:
working miner's car pelted by pickets in Aberdare, and car
driven miner's wife has window broken: strikers' wives
sorting out food parcels: strikers eating in canteen:
Grimethorpe miners return to work after strike: Fleet Street
newspaper offices: violent clashes on Warrington Messenger
Group newspaper plant 1983: Messenger Chairman, Selim 'Eddie'
Shah speaking: Rupert Murdoch in meeting with Brenda Dean,
National Graphical Association Leader, 1986: Murdoch
speaking: Dean speaking: barbed wire defences at Wapping
newspaper plant: Keith Parker, editor of Wolverhampton
Express and Star speaking: new technology in use compositing
in traditional newspaper print room: violent clashes between
police and pickets at Wapping.
(dur: 6 minutes 15 seconds / eng. sot: 1 minute 39 seconds)
Story: Britain's Conservative government has successfully
curtailed the power of the trade unions. London's Fleet
Street has felt the full effects of the combined force of
union law and the sweeping change of new technology, and the
clashes of the picket lines are as bitter as ever.

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