[…]was at Warner Brothers, yes, at Teddington...KM:... where I never worked.Sidney Cole: When did you start - you must have got more associated with the Union in those days, had you?Kay Mander: I think I was - yes, I was on the General Council, wasn't I?Sidney Cole: You must have been one of the very e[…]
[…]they came to him, I'd have to check in his book about that. I've got a copy, I've got the original somewhere of the most ecstatic, nauseating Western Union cablegram from Louis B Mayer welcoming them both to Hollywood. My mother hated every moment of it and in fact started writing a diary which I ha[…]
[…]n the switches panel we didn't have vision pictures we had technical directors whatever they were called, they were part of a very very fierce strong union - we had IBEW, NBC had NABET – and you would take whatever number it was which put the Telop up, the system Telop, and you would say mix system,[…]
[…]ts] What was his name, do you remember?WR: I can’t remember, but I’m going to be a bit libellous, he said he didn’t like ACT and they didn’t have the unions, and if there wasn’t much doing and he asked me to clean his car, then I cleaned his car. So that didn’t go very much further that morning. Wel[…]
[…]That was the area in which I worked. And it was around that time, within a few months, I joined ACT. Manny Yospa: Was it difficult in organising unions in Kodak? Geoff Conway: Oh yes. They wouldn't recognise unions, they had their own in-house representation union as it were which was fina[…]
[…]se days, it was a closed shop. I only managed to get the job because nobody else wanted it, basically. Because any, any jobs have to be advertised to union members first. And so and then as I think I have to wait a few months before I could apply for union ticket, and then as soon as I could, I did […]
[…] it seems incredible now – a history of the trade union movement, with Lord Francis Williams, Postmaster General in Attlee’s […]
