Podcast
lists
1)
Lifelong trade unionist and socialist Martin
McMulkin was, until he retired, the Unite convenor at
Jost in Bolton for many years.
In 2019 he became a Labour councillor in
Bolton but he was unwilling to simply facilitate cuts in local services.
https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/martin-mcmulkin-interview.wav
2) Charlie Clutterbuck https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/charlie-clutterbuck-interview.mp3
In this half hour audio interview, Charlie
Clutterbuck – author of the 2017 book Bitterwseet Brexit: the
future of food, farming, land and labour – seeks to examine how his
predictions in it are working out following Britain’s exit from the EU.
The labour and trade movement activist
explains the massive forthcoming changes in farming that will put out of
business many small farmers, recalls why the EU sought to develop farming
policies that ended European countries dependence on US food imports, touches
on the massive imbalance in land ownership at home and how the pouring into the
UK of a lot of cheaper, poorly produced food will further raise obesity levels
and put further pressure on the NHS and social services.
Clutterbuck notes that it is a US
company, Tate and Lyle, that was the first to benefit from the
Government’s removal of tariffs on imports, literally handing millions from
British taxpayers to American shareholders. Money that could have been used to
subsidise better-paid jobs in land-based food producing occupations that would
boost incomes in rural communities.
As a soil scientist, Clutterbuck
investigates the Government’s plans for those that work on the land and finds a
total absence of any detail. How ideas for greening the land in which big
grants may be used to lever in private finance for projects that might possibly
provide an initial job creation boost through rewilding and tree planting
projects are not going to revive rural communities.
The interview ends with Clutterbuck
exploring how to create a direct link using food credits between producers of
high-quality food and the poorest in society.
The interview was conducted by Mark
Metcalf
3) Peterloo 1819: Halifax 1842
https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/1842.mp3
Most people know of Peterloo 1819 when eighteen people died
after cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to
demand the reform of parliamentary representation.
Far fewer know of similar tragic events in Halifax in August
1842.
This was when, at the very least, five local people were
slaughtered and dozens badly injured – by the military and special constables –
whilst they were participating in a nationwide general strike that combined
demands for better pay with an extension to those allowed to vote.
4) Blood Suckers – how PFI sucked the
NHS dry
https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/pfiprojects.mp3
Catherine
Howe, author of the Halifax 1842: A Year of Crisis book is also recording a 7-minute
piece that examines the deaths and injuries suffered by people on 16 August
1842.
Unite oral
history podcasts
https://open.spotify.com/show/7BqkJ0UnnIC1edzdq0Jv37
What does it mean to be a shop steward? https://open.spotify.com/episode/0knSTX9sNaGc6tsTqQB4vx
Being a safety rep.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bllOKhGQCDGZfXoUpJESr
The miners strike’ of 1984 and the Battle of
Orgreave
https://open.spotify.com/episode/578aw5rfX4aSWpGWmVdZlP
Organising
the 1980 truckers’ strike
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ua22q3fOLL3bk4axQtbav
Organising
workers behind the Iron Curtain
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0chk65rAVJCVMKY4h8LlEX
Fighting
the Poll Tax
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GGWM0tgMQWweKKRSy3HME
The Miners
Strike by A. Daykin
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NIFGyB0WxTRHxcLQIm8qO
Organising
workers on zero hours contracts – part 1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NqN9QOTnM4AsWAu4a8Opl
Part 2
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1GBwjW8vNdRJwAhlvQ9zbZ
Being a union rep – Jacob Goddard
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zZNfqnaQjf4LCgAxltfsd
Experiences of trade union education – Jacob Goddard
https://open.spotify.com/episode/35hcvzsBWxV0RrPhwrIun9
Paramedic Debbie Wilkinson, a long standing Unite member,
speaks of the successful two-year (2013-15) battle, including a Leverage Campaign
plus twelve days of strike action, the first strike in the NHS since the
Ambulance Workers took action a quarter of a century earlier, to prevent Unite
being derecognised by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. For more on the
background:- https://unitelive.org/resolute-patient-safety-fight/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rA3j5VeXtawtUtw8i25q3
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