[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] he was working for himself, he still paid his dues. Was before the AU. Of course, he was a member ofUnknown Speaker 2:42 the tool makers union, or whatever they were called, called, you know, and he was in that before the 1418, war. I think, going back to Edwards, weren't they the lathe[…]
[…] Zealand equity.John P Hamilton 12:36 What did you do with a broom? We all know the answer to that. So you joined equity your first trade unionGerald Chambers 12:45 was in was in was in New Zealand as an actor, as an actor. And I still have my card signed by a Mr. Jacques Fle[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] fate worse than death. It would have become a puppet union. RF: Did you go to SDG [Screen Directors Guild] […]
[…]l I mean like for example when I got to Hollywood I tell my story the people they're like they're quite amazed because nowadays it's easier since the unions have been broken out there. But in those days you had to be an assistant to I think for many years I think was an example when Alan JAGs who wa[…]
[…] that we were still in the clutches of the awful union problems and it was unbelievable because of course theoretically […]
