[…]of BECTU, the Head of BECTU. Yeah. Yeah. RL: 0:23 Well, let's get [clear] actually, so Gerry is the head of BECTU within the Prospect union. GM: That's correct. RL: Okay, fine. My name is Roy Lockett. I'm the interviewer, and the date today is the 16th. Thanks very much. We[…]
[…] as a compositor in the printing works in Croydon. So that, so I started as an apprentice compositor under a proper apprenticeship scheme in which my union at the time, which I’m immensely proud of was, The London Society of Compositors. It was just like a kind of, you know, before all of the amalga[…]
[…] coped reasonably well. I think the change little bit lonely at first, I think, and because I sort of been rather involved at college in the Students Union, it was at the time of the Hornsey College of Art rebellion, I suppose even then, when I turned up to work for my living. I was a bit of gas tha[…]
[…]egal career, for a couple of years during my training in a city law firm, in 1987, I was very pleased to join Thomson Reuters as the preeminent Trade Union law firm to act for workers, working people and trade unions. And that's what I've been doing ever since.Derek Threadgall 3:17 It's […]
[…]nbsp; Stopped in New York. Went on to…took three or four days to get to Sydney. By the time I had got to Sydney the European Broadcasting Union, then it’s…then in it’s embryo, and the Americans, had decided to boycott the Olympic Games. And the reason for the boycott was this, the […]
[…]nd with this chap. And he said, ‘I’m the shop steward and I’d like a word with you’ and I said, ‘Yes?’ He said, ‘I believe you’re not a member of our union’ and I said, ‘Yes, that’s quite right’. So he said, ‘Why aren’t you?’ I said, ‘Because I’ve chosen not to be a member’ I said, ‘I’ve been leant […]
[…] he was working for himself, he still paid his dues. Was before the AU. Of course, he was a member ofUnknown Speaker 2:42 the tool makers union, or whatever they were called, called, you know, and he was in that before the 1418, war. I think, going back to Edwards, weren't they the lathe[…]
[…]ilms were rotten. What could you say about it? So, I mean, somebody has to think and what one of the dangers, and probably this is as a result of our union structure, whatever it may be, is alternative is the only to wait, way to make every commercial, to have 444, and three, or 333, or whatever it […]
[…] to Kingston on Thames and it is buried in cases. Will I send it to you?’ And then he sort of said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘well, I was a trade union organiser and I retired at 60 but since then I have travelled very widely and I had worked in Vienna and Moscow and so on.’And he said ‘do you p[…]
