Alan Lawson

[…] film lighting but I was in dead trouble because ACT, NATKE and ETU had come to an agreement where one […]

David Robson

[…] 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[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]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 […]

Lew Grade

[…]d he said "I would agree it but you will never get George Elvin to agree". I says "What happens if I get George Elvin to agree?" he says "You'll have NATKE's support". Because I intended to get the unions' approval before I went to the IBA. So I called George Elvin, he came up to see me, and he said[…]

Jack Rockett

[…]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[…]
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