[…]et rid of him...they made up this rather woolly accusation, that he’d fiddled his expense or something. Well, he hadn’t as it happened and he got the union involved: reluctantly the union got involved – no, it wasn’t the union then, it was the Staff Association, that’s right and they took up the cau[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]t would have been one of the Gaumont British newsreel cameramen someone 1ike Edmunds. It would be one of them.KGY: Can you recall the period from the union point of view.CC: I can only remember and it was an awful long time ago, it wasn't a union in the sense that the union is today. It was the sort[…]
[…]the works committee was named Bert Batchelor. Now I personally found him very friendly, but like everything else, when you hold a position in a trade union, some people like you and some people don't. But I liked the man and therefore I've got some nice memories of the man you know, because to me, h[…]
[…]ed a film on this. It was a very interesting piece of labour relations because they were having a lot of discussions before it started with the steel unions on redundancy and it was extremely well worked out, and then I was off that and they spent 1000s on filming a girder being moved because it was[…]
[…] he hadn’t as it happened and h e got the union involved: reluctantly the union got involved – no, it […]
[…] seen a mixed audience, men and women at the student union, with the men in tears. And they were telling […]
[…] his family and went to many cinemas as manager, notably Whitley Bay, the beautiful Lonsdale in Carlisle, and by my birth he was the area manager for Union Cinemas based at the Ritz in Birkenhead, hence I was born in Birkenhead.
00:03:09 And the Ritz, bea[…]
