Early notice for what is likely to be a well attended weekend celebrating and learning from struggles that have taken place in Brent in the past and have important lessons for trade unionists today.
Saturday 17th October 2-6pm
The 1926 General Strike in Brent.
Film: The General Strike in Brent The 1926 General Strike in Brent and the role of local trade unions. • Speakers: Mary Davis. Visiting Professor of Labour History, University of London The General Strike in Brent: Chris Coates, former Librarian at the TUC, researcher in local & trade union history • Panel Discussion: Organising unorganised workers • Poets on the Picket Line
Sunday 17th October 2-6pm
Celebrating and learning from the Grunwick Strike 1976-78
Film: The Great Grunwick Strike Speakers: Professor Sundari Anitha, co-author "Striking Women: Struggles & Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet" Dave Ward Gen Sec. Communication Workers Union • Panel Discussion: Issues facing trades unionists today • Music & songs of struggle.
Venue
Brent Trades Hall (Apollo Club)
375 High Road
London NW10 2JR
Just up the High Road from Willesden Bus Depot and served by many bus routes including 260, 266 and 297. Nearest tube Dollis Hill on the Jubilee line.
1974-1976? Surely the Grunwick strike was 1976-1978?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dates were in original website. Corrected,
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ReplyDeleteGrunwick Timeline
The Grunwick time line shows the chronology of events at the Grunwick photo processing plant in North West London. It covers the establishment of the factory by owner George Ward, and the events that led to the walk out by workers and the strike that lasted for three years from August 1976 until July 1978. It shows how the strikers, under the leadership of Jayaben Desai fought for the right to organise trade unions at their workplace, and for better conditions and pay. It also shows how support form other trade unions reach a pinnacle in the mass pickets of 1977only to be reversed as the TUC and some union leaders decided that the strikers demands could not be achieved. sufficient. This information is based on Graham Taylor (1978) Grunwick: the Workers’ Story: Lawrence & Wishart , London, as well as from the personal testimonies of the strikers and archival records.