Search Results for: Union (BECTU)

[…]   Working long hours in current industryTAPE 400:00:30            Role in BECTU and Unions00:06:30            Hopes of the Industry00:08:06      &nbs[…]

[…]op steward at Rank during the lock-out in the early-1950s; asked to return to work when the Queen’s coronation was on the horizon; PB talks about his union activities; hundreds of staff at Denham during this time; Denham was taken over by Rank during the war when Korda went bankrupt.00:18:15 – 00:21[…]

[…]y girl called Kay Mander, who later became a great director, a great director of documentaries. Erm..and she was erm, she said to me, “are you in the union?” and I said ‘union?’ and she said “yes.. the ACT. It’s the association of cinematograph technicians, and I said ‘no’. She said ‘well, you can j[…]

[…]ugh her, done all the right thing and we had ten Greeks that we didn’t need but we had them as you have to. And the day we started shooting the trade unions came out and drove their cars around and nine hours of discussion, whole day of discussion. And I’m afraid we had to take more people on, and I[…]

[…]n actors for a start and also with I think some, I think base of it, I think there, there must have been some Italian crew I would think probably for union reasons.AL: There would be.And it was based, it was actually shot in... Oh golly, where’s the place of the, of the mosaics in Italy? Oh I c[…]

[…]inter, the plasterers, the carpenters, stage hands and it was a friendly atmosphere.  It wasn’t quite as rigid I think as the big studios in the union sense.  Today it would be classed as left of Stalin I guess but in comparison to restrictions that used to be imposed it was not – it was j[…]

[…]10  as an independentAnn Turner  10:11  recording, since I haven't done anything, and then because I'm not a member of the independent union, I think I'm lodged with ABS or whatever it was by the time I left. Well, that's why you're aAlan Lawson  10:29  member of the Union.A[…]