[…]me basic salary that I left with. So, we've all got together, all us retired people now, and we've employed a Queen's Councillor, and I think all the unions... We did approach all the unions first and asked their advice on what we should do, and they all advised us to do the same thing, as to take a[…]
[…]ht be useful.Julia Cave: And therefore give the cameraman a very hard time, because they’re not disciplined into the hours and there aren’t any unions of course, any more either. And people are so afraid of losing their jobs, that they’ll go on with these young kids, who don’t know what […]
[…]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[…]
[…]during World War Two. And that's basically where you find me.Manny Yospa 11:23 Because when can you tell me something about your works in Union?Nick Ardizzone 11:32 Even before I became a member, I was very impressed by the power and the good work that ACTT did. Yes, there we[…]
[…]till production secretary? Pamela Mann-Francis 18:18 I was, I was both on that. I became unofficially, still with no union membership, I was desperately trying to get a union membership. I didn't get my union membership until after Bridge on the River Kwai, I think, […]
[…]we used to have to go in and do stage shows of course because you couldn't single man now This single man, he was always a thorn in the flesh. I'm in Union headquarters. Now I'll tell him straight, that I think the union dropped a terrific clangour. I forgotten the name of the area representative. I[…]
[…]t. I found that the music Department had allocated a budget of £900 for ballet. That was it. I read all the directives from Equity and the Musician’s Union and all........Fortnum and Bennett. It was perfectly clear you could not do a ballet for £900, if you obeyed the rules. If there was a small com[…]
[…] "Yes, that’s alright, you can draw" Which is all I wanted to do, and design and so forth and they were in a terrible state. This was before the ACTT Union and there was a long queue outside the workman's gate 24 hours a day. Everybody was working night and day, literally to try get anything out on […]
[…]ive and they got a lot of the sound people into the ETU, some didn't join but some did. And then there was a thing between the ETU and NATKE, the two unions - that the ETU wanted to have all ETU members as projectionists throughout the country. It was easy enough to organise, if they could have got […]
