[…]ted to live there, because I had always thought I did, and, and then stay. And as soon as I was working there, I realised, unlike England, there were union and non-union movies. So I couldn’t get into the union. Paramount had been trying for some time to get me in the union there, and couldn’t. But […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]entualities and it would be lovely to have them as a matter of record. So I then wrote, having thought about it a bit I then wrote an article for the union, it was ACT in those days, for the union journal which was called, in fact Sue’s just found a copy Don’t Let The Incinerator Claim Our Golden Ag[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]oughing] When I was taken on at ghoster[??-18:00] Films[??], 1971, Patterns of Discrimination hadn’t been published, so that, as far as the unions were concerned,women could not be accepted in technical jobs. So that, if you applied to the union tobe a camera technician, they sent a letter[…]
