Geoffrey Conway

[…]That was the area in which I worked. And it was around that time, within a few months, I joined ACT. Manny Yospa: Was it difficult in organising unions in Kodak? Geoff Conway: Oh yes. They wouldn't recognise unions, they had their own in-house representation union as it were which was fina[…]

John Aldred

[…] a Denham shop because at that "time not everyone working at Denham was in the ACT and I was about the only member of the sound department who in the union. One lunchtime I remember we had a meeting with both Anthony Asquith who was the president in those days and George Elvin and they both addresse[…]

Simon Rose

[…]se days, it was a closed shop. I only managed to get the job because nobody else wanted it, basically. Because any, any jobs have to be advertised to union members first. And so and then as I think I have to wait a few months before I could apply for union ticket, and then as soon as I could, I did […]

Alice (Queenie) Turner

[…]k Gemmell, Terry Ashwood. [Pause] Frank Bassill.Ken Gordon?Ken, Ken Gordon, oh yes, old Ken, a friend of mine, yes.Yes. [Laughter]These were all good union men. And Ken Gordon and, oh, there was quite a few of them. And then we had Bob Walker, Danvers Walker, he was a commentator.Y es.13Name of inte[…]

Robert Scott

[…]ion-mixing really and then a lot of playing out because we recorded all the programmes on half-inch tape and then they were played out to the Student Union at lunchtime so we had to do a kind of switch-over. Somebody had to go to the Union and switch all the monitors on and then somebody had to do a[…]

William R Vicker

[…]r the company is that right?Speaker 1  9:34  An agreement, yes. And one of the clauses in there that you were not permitted to join a trade union. That's Yes, you know, yesUnknown Speaker  9:47  was I believeSpeaker 1  9:49  F Brown. I was surprised when I was at the Mu[…]
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