Daphne Ancell

[…]absthat office work was covered by our union.[OI] Yes.Been, if I‟d of gone to a television company...[OI] Yes.Or, mm, film company it would have been NATKE or something like that.[OI] What, what, what perhaps would you have liked to have tried in the film business?I don‟t know really because I don‟t[…]

Jim Gorrie

[…]found that feeling. So much of people being so keen on their job, you know?Alf Cooper  16:11  Yes, that's right. Yes. When did you get into NATKE?Jim Gorrie  16:14  Well, we joined it was part of the deal when we went to the cinema the Regal the first month I was  14 of join[…]

Kay Mander

[…]icity department, when I went into the budget department at Denham, Tom O'Brien insisted that was - I had to lay down my card.Sidney Cole: And have a NATKE card?Kay Mander: No, I didn't, I refused to join it, I just didn't have anything. And when I went back onto production, I re-joined - said to AC[…]

Guido Coen

[…]motiva– ted, they are there to safeguard the welfare of the workers, fine, we've never had an unpleasantness, we've had a meeting today with BETA and NATKE, a very successful meeting, I've asked Alan to come down here many times, he came down here once with a representative of socialist opposition, […]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]ith me, in other words, on my side and prepared to speak up against John Davis and that was the Chief Executive, or General Secretary I should say of NATKE whose name I can’t remember and Alan Sapper.Q: I think we’d better flip the tape.00:42:0100:42:45END OF SIDE 7SIDE 8 00:00:0200:00:37SAMUELSON: […]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]y with Fox for the moment. What you're saying in effect is that even those that had a union, the hourly paid people that had a union like ETU and the NATKE members, they just accepted the fact that they would be laid off at the end of it.Eddie Dryhurst: Yeah well, they were glad to get taken on you […]

Harry Miller

[…]nly people they’d talk to.  And they had all these ETU overtime things and that.  They were best off in those days you see.  There was NATKE, the other Union, but they they got overtime as well but all the technicians weren’t getting as much money as the electricians and the carpenter[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]asn't easy to get in. It would be interesting to talk of theunion in those days, how you remember it, how it was perceived.   Out of ACT andNATKE and the ETU, this was a vast power block, it really had control at that stage.Was ACT equally luddite, reactionary, backward looking do you thin[…]
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