E68: The Grunwick strike, part 2
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This second part covers scope of the dispute, the role of police, the media and the trade unions, how the dispute concluded and its legacy and lessons for today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to part two of our double podcast episode about the Gromwick Strike. |
| 0:07.0 | If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, I'd go back and listen to that first. |
| 0:11.0 | At the morning, |
| 0:12.8 | just upen alzata, |
| 0:21.6 | oh, Bella, ch Oh, bella, Ciao, |
| 0:22.6 | Bella, |
| 0:23.6 | Ciao, |
| 0:24.6 | and in return |
| 0:26.6 | Our Matino. |
| 0:28.6 | Before we get started, just a quick reminder that our podcast is only made possible |
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| 0:58.8 | Now, one organisation which did a lot to support the Grumwick Strikers was the local trades council in Brent, the London borough in which the dispute was taking place. |
| 1:03.1 | Trades councils are basically organising bodies in which mostly lay representatives, |
| 1:08.3 | i.e., not paid union officials, from all different unions in a given area, |
| 1:13.1 | meet together and coordinate. Many of these today are quite moribund, but at the time many of them |
| 1:18.5 | were highly active, as Sajata, a member of the Grumwick 40 Group, explains. I think as well that |
| 1:24.6 | perhaps if it had maybe been a different trades council who hadn't |
| 1:30.6 | been so receptive, the whole thing may have taken a completely different trajectory. |
| 1:36.5 | You know, the fact that Brent was relatively open-minded and progressive at that time and |
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