[…] including the National Association of Television and Kinema Employees ( NATKE), were in agreement that women’s employment was ‘“an emergency […]
[…] I said, "Well why?" He said, "Because there are three unions here. Apart from a few people in ACT and people like yourself who want to join, there's NATKE and there's also the BBC Union. And there's more BBC people than there is anybody else." So I said, "Well we must do something." So he said, "We[…]
[…]s at a few minutes notice they'd say, "All right we're working until 10 o'clock." Now the only people who were organised in those days of course were NATKE and ETU, so they more or less governed the actual financial side of things as far as working late. The ordinary camera crew, assistants and odd […]
[…]ront of house men and so on.Sidney Cole: Did you have anything to do with labour relations, industrial relations with...?Jack Rockett: Well only with NATKE.Sidney Cole: With NATKE, oh Tom O'Brien. Did you meet Tom?Jack Rockett: I met Tom O'Brien but the man I had most trouble with was Mr Keenan, who[…]
[…]or who with his Caley Cinema colleague George Mavers were the two principle elected officers of the local branch of the Cinema Employee’s Trade Union NATKE. Was it any wonder I had secured such a fabulous grounding? The Union “double act” of Jimmy and George were a really tough pair of negotiators w[…]
