Search Results for: Union (ACT/ACTT)

[…] ever join the ACTT or did you join the BBC union? ED: No, I joined the ACTT. I: You joined […]

[…] Kay Mander: So during all this time, there was the union. You've mentioned ACT not understanding about editors. Joy Batchelor: […]

[…] had a lot to do with the running of the union at Denham. Betty Bachelor: He was a convenor there. […]

[…]fairly regular meetings.  Because I worked in Dean Street, there was laboratory meetings for once every couple of months. And although they were union meetings, they were quite interesting because you could talk to the other ... I mean people from Humphries and Kays and Technicolor were there a[…]

[…]ickly and Sid Brugson [ph 0:34:17] was in charge.Oh yes, yes, yes.19Peggy Hyde-Chambers. Tape 1 Side AAnd that’s when I got, did quite a bit with the unions because he used to take me to the union meetings in which they were all there.Yes.And, and I became the person who takes all the subs at Denham[…]

[…]have been so much better to put it in the studio and do it as you wanted to.I: Can I ask you, did you ever join the ACTT or did you join the BBC union?ED: No, I joined the ACTT.I: You joined ACTT?ED: Yes, it was about 1967.I: Do you remember who recruited you?ED: Yes, i[…]

[…]d me did you?" So it was all good fun amongst the chaps.Ralph Bond: Very nice. Alf I believe you were one of the first newsreel cameramen to join the union and to try to get your colleagues organised in the union. But, probably because they were all individualists, it wasn't too easy at first was it[…]

[…]y.Kay Mander: So your fame had gone quite wide by then, already.Joy Batchelor: Well, the films had.Kay Mander: So during all this time, there was the union. You've mentioned ACT not understanding about editors.Joy Batchelor: No they don't, to this day.Kay Mander: Did you, you joined ACTT - or ACT, r[…]

[…] yes. What do you think of acts standing up until the war?Speaker 2  27:12  Well, I always think back, particularly today, everybody knocks unions, but I remember how I used to work till two every morning. Saturdays and Sundays never get paid for it. So when a union came along, I thought, […]