[…] series of jobs or did you stay there the whole time?I stayed in that industry for, mm, nine years.Mm.Mm, it was there that I was introduced to trade unionism.Yes.By sheer chance meeting a fellow that was canvassing round the gate and, mm, it allsounded interesting and worthy to me. I’d had some asp[…]
[…]s which they controlled in order to broadcast the material we created. Secondly they were almost invariably either in or on the verge of being in the union and those were experiences which most producers knew nothing about at all most of our skills were literary skills or quasi literary or journalis[…]
[…] it seems incredible now – a history of the trade union movement, with Lord Francis Williams, Postmaster General in Attlee’s […]
[…] in this country but in that pre-handbagging era the film union was guarding its closed shop with concentrated might. To […]
[…]n the switches panel we didn't have vision pictures we had technical directors whatever they were called, they were part of a very very fierce strong union - we had IBEW, NBC had NABET – and you would take whatever number it was which put the Telop up, the system Telop, and you would say mix system,[…]
[…]was at Warner Brothers, yes, at Teddington...KM:... where I never worked.Sidney Cole: When did you start - you must have got more associated with the Union in those days, had you?Kay Mander: I think I was - yes, I was on the General Council, wasn't I?Sidney Cole: You must have been one of the very e[…]
