[…]rews and everybody.JPH: From the seventies onwards, yes.DS: Very well protected.JPH: It took a long time for ACTT particularly to become established. NATTKE were always fairly strong. And ETU were, the old ETU, of course. In the bolshie days, they were strong beyond belief. But ACTT was pretty wishy[…]
[…]y took over all this work of getting out these equipments. And they were a lot of equipment, and they did wonderful work. Wonderful work, the rest of NATTKE, because I suppose if you, if you're too, if you've got the kind of an organisation that can make telephone equipment by the million and so on,[…]
[…]se were the Thatcher years and unions were more and more fraught. Mm, [Pause] ACT was broke and I think BETA, which was the sister union comprised of NATTKE and the old BBC union ABS, mm, were equally approaching the rocks, so this was the merger which was a very, very hard fought and hard debated i[…]
