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Carnelian, I remember the seventies too. 

A story from my family’s past.

 

My father drove a mobile crane during that time. He was assigned a job at British Leyland. A three hour job at most. He got there only to be told that he couldn’t go in and do that job because he wasn’t a union member. 

He didn’t need to be. His job was a good one. Well payed for that time. So after some discussions between his boss and the union at BL. It was decided that my father could go onto the site and do the job if he joined the union. He had no choice but to join the union for the three hours of the job. A three hour job turned into seven hours.

So BL ended up paying the crane hire for 7 hours and not for three.

 

Red Robbo(Derek Robinson) was the shop stewards’ convener at BL at that time. A notorious, some may say, person of his era. 

This is the man I have read was responsible for 523 walkouts at BL in the late seventies. 

Do you really want to plunge us back to that?

Moonie
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