https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/tim-mcsharry.mp3
Disabled people and benefits, access to services, the
Equality Act and hate crime are all examined by Tim McSharry of
the Access Committee for Leeds, an unfunded long-standing disabled
led volunteer organisation.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79qBbyJGFNeXUa2GhrIm8q
In 1971 and inspired by the 1970 Equal Pay Act, Allyson Daykin and
her young workmates got organised at KP Foods and later won better terms and
conditions. Victory initially though did not just mean challenging management
practices!
In 1971, aware that the 1970 Equal Pay Act had been enacted
after the 1968 successful Ford sewing machinists strike at Dagenham,
Rotherham’s Allyson Daykin and her badly exploited, mainly female, juvenile
workmates at KP Foods sought to improve their wages and conditions.
They quickly came up against resistance from the male
dominated TGWU workplace branch and thus set out to organise themselves. In
doing so Allyson was pushed forward and elected by her workmates to the role of
shop steward, a position she fulfilled for 37 years.
This 10-minute interview starts with Allyson describing how
her working-class upbringing stood her in good stead when she began work at 15.
Just gone online is coverage of the We Remember (those killed by the police) March and Public Talk (by Gareth Pierce. good speaker) from 1995 in Hackney. https://markwritecouk.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/trevor-monverville-memorial-lecture_8385.mp4