BECTU History Project - Interview No. 367[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-11-18Interview Date: 1995-09-22 Interviewers: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: Dicky Leeman Tape 1, Side 1Rodney Giesler: This is an interview with Dicky Leeman, by Rodney Giesler, in Bognor Regis. It'[…]
[…]g. Supervising and so on, going round with the regional engineer. And it was then at that time, as I say, the opportunity arose to go into the higher management course. Oh, in the meantime I had been a mobile manager in the West End.Sidney Cole: Where were you in the West End?Jack Rockett: West End,[…]
[…]in the morning or something I cannot say. Unfortunately they got it done at the Television Centre. But Dave Hillier came with him and was doing floor management and they missed the boat at Dover. And they had to get the idea. From the other side of the harbour and they went to instead of going to Ze[…]
[…]ours work. I mean the the pendulum swung the other way when the when the union when the ACTT became stronger. They made up for all the years that the management really that early in. Yes, it was pretty early when they once they were underway. They they really restricted us. But then what happened af[…]
[…]passenger area became the freight area and we had offices (movement) and storage actually next to the runway (cough, er hum). Um anyway we found that management of a company abroad is a major problem and you can’t supervise it as well as you can if you were on the spot. And in Holland particularly a[…]
[…]Because there's many in those days you could in fact you could talk to lad managements unofficially and you could get agreements in the back by the backdoor met[…]
[…]s. I went to Rhodesia while it was still Rhodesia and it was very good. I have no notes on, on productions in ‘72/73.No, no, no.[Pause] I went on the management course also in’75, July ‘75 I went on the management course at Uplands, which was very enjoyable indeed. And that was two weeks with a week[…]
[…] Mm. Had immediately agreed, as they agreed with everything, the management’s proposal that they would be made redundant, mm, which […]
[…] in ‘72/73. No, no, no. [Pause] I went on the management course also in’75, July ‘75 I went on the […]
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