Trade unions in Liverpool | Are the strikes affecting business? | 1970s Liverpool | 1978 | Part 1

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  • Part one of a heated debate held in a Labour club in Liverpool. In this section the panel and audience discuss the strikes that have paralyzed major industry in the area which has lead to factory owners threatening to close them and re locate elsewhere.
    Host: JOHN WITHINGTON
    Panel: GEORGE ALCOCK, CHAIRMAN, PORT USERS COMMITTEE
    ERIC HEFFER MP
    EDDIE LOYDEN MP
    DAVID MOWAT, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER /
    Recorded in 1978
    If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail:
    archive@fremantle.com
    Quote: VT18465
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Komentáře • 45

  • @regplasma7906
    @regplasma7906 Před 2 lety +18

    You can almost smell the beer, smoke , hai karate ,brylcreem and farts in this beautiful cinematic piece.Thank you Thames Tv.

    • @freddiebozwell7049
      @freddiebozwell7049 Před 2 lety +2

      Then home for a vesta curry.

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 10 měsíci

      "What cologne you gonna go with? London Gentleman, or wait. No, no, no. Hold on. Blackbeard's Delight."
      "No, she gets a special cologne... It's called Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in nine countries... Yep, it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good."
      "It's quite pungent... It's a formidable scent... It stings the nostrils. In a good way."
      "Yep!"
      "Brian, I'm gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline."
      "They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time..."

  • @carmencornelianastase1240

    Good morning !
    Have a nice Weekend!🍀🌼🍀❄️⛄❄️✨🍀 What a Beautiful people !🤗

  • @briansparks8528
    @briansparks8528 Před 2 lety +5

    The beginning of the end

  • @th8257
    @th8257 Před 2 lety +15

    A good indication of how just moribund much of British industry was by the 1970s. Britain had been in industrial decline since the 1800s. Overtaken by America and Germany and then other countries, who used modern techniques and machinery with workers and management moving together to make competitive, high quality products. In Britain meanwhile, we stuck to declining industries using antiquated methods and machinery, with workers and management squabbling over who could overpay themselves more with lower and lower profits, while fewer and fewer people bought our products because in many cases they were notoriously shoddy.

    • @CA999
      @CA999 Před 2 lety

      Worse still now they would not even report such tensions between workers and management. Certainly not in any detail. It would be some other distraction or content filler. Perhaps with some effort in the business section you will find out about expanding markets elsewhere but in not in the Anglo-American countries.

    • @mfletch3205
      @mfletch3205 Před 2 lety +6

      The rot started post WW1. Not only did it wreck the economy and result in loss of financial security but it also cost us the cream of the UK’s youth. The last collapse could be seen post WW2 with the jet industry. Here we had a product and a lead yet we managed to blow it (even giving the USSR Rolls Royce engines!).
      In regards to the post war industrial problems there were several issues. Firstly the U.K. seemed to think that the rest of the world owed us and secondly that the U.K. population would keep buying poor quality products or services just because they were British. The truth was that the population as a whole had enough of power strikes,car strikes,bin strikes and crap cars.
      The cars even if crap would have sold if they had been built properly. Nobody should buy a brand new car and find that it was incorrectly wired or that the gearbox was trashed after a few thousand miles.
      However much the left decry Thatcher they sowed the seeds for her election. It was inevitable that enough would be enough.

    • @th8257
      @th8257 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@mfletch3205nope, it started in the late 1800s, WW1 simply accelerated it. Britain's share of world trade between 1880 and 1913 declined from 38% to 30% and by 1913, Germany's manufacturing output had overtaken Britain's, and Britain had also fallen to third place in steel production behind Germany and the USA. The industrialist Andrew Carnegie famously said that British industry was being left in the dust by the USA and Germany because we in the UK were still using equipment and methods that were out of date by twenty years, even then. We were no longer the only industrial power - the USA and Germany had caught up and overtaken us, and we couldn't keep up.

  • @michaelmoran2022
    @michaelmoran2022 Před rokem

    Use to live in Allerton as a kid remember Ford use to have union meetings on South liverpool fc Holly Park, my dad could never get petrol ,and there was never bread in the shops remember them days
    Like it was yesterday.

  • @marcelolinhares8233
    @marcelolinhares8233 Před rokem +1

    with all respect because of this, became Liverpoor.

  • @margarethoughton3577
    @margarethoughton3577 Před rokem +2

    LABOUR !!! GO BACK TO THE 50's then 80's With DEREK HATTON!!! Liverpool brought to it's knees!

  • @donny4855
    @donny4855 Před 2 lety +5

    Can we have more of this please , especially this meeting 🙏

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Před rokem

    @5:09 - It's Shoestring !

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Před rokem +1

    @5:00 - Why does this guy remind me of Ronnie Barker ?

  • @DelCampoProductions.
    @DelCampoProductions. Před 2 lety +1

    Great content.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Před rokem +1

    @5:33 - Gotta get that wig straight !

  • @MilesBellas
    @MilesBellas Před 2 lety +7

    To Asian countries this is seen as a failure of hierarchy and an avenue for domination.
    .
    Greed at the top, entitlement at the bottom = collapse
    .
    3:00
    employers simply employed Asian companies and now some Liverpool home can be bought for pennies.
    Entitled union myopia was blind to globalisation.
    The whole docklands area of Liverpool is full of decaying warehouses.
    Red Robbo, the greed of "aristocrasy", lack of investment in regional education.. ..created mass regional decline........more far reaching and permanent than WWII.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Před 6 měsíci

    @6:50 - LMAO ! Don't they all look enthralled ?

  • @deanstanley5799
    @deanstanley5799 Před 2 lety +3

    A labour club on Merseyside!😂😂

  • @kieranwhite6647
    @kieranwhite6647 Před 2 lety

    I thought that was a young David Mitchell on the thumbnail...

    • @bluemooninn
      @bluemooninn Před 2 lety +1

      I thought it was Alan Partridge

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 10 měsíci

      David Mitchell is my favourite Liverpudlian. The only one I like, really.

  • @GrandLordGeek
    @GrandLordGeek Před 2 lety +4

    Owners never take a haircut, it’s always the workers who get fucked. Solidarity forever.

  • @marcelolinhares8233
    @marcelolinhares8233 Před rokem

    poor people,both sides.

  • @lameduck3630
    @lameduck3630 Před 2 lety +11

    Liverpool brought on its own decline.

    • @th8257
      @th8257 Před 2 lety +7

      Liverpool, like so many other places, lost so much of its reason to exist. It came to prominence as a port to handle the trans Atlantic cotton trade and immigration to America and Canada. Once that dried up, the writing was on the wall. Other cities had similar problems - Newcastle for example grew up on the coal trade. Once that went, Newcastle's main reason to exist disappeared. But with those challenges to deal with, it's a good indication of how just moribund much of British industry was by the 1970s and how insane we'd become about it. Britain had been in industrial decline since the 1800s. Overtaken by America and Germany and then other countries, who used modern techniques and machinery with workers and management moving together to make competitive, high quality products. In Britain meanwhile, we stuck to declining industries using antiquated methods and machinery, with workers and management squabbling over who could overpay themselves more with lower and lower profits, while fewer and fewer people bought our products because in many cases they were notoriously shoddy.

    • @donny4855
      @donny4855 Před 2 lety +7

      No you miscreant, the Tories did, we don't lay down and roll over for Tories

    • @philmcchrystal1670
      @philmcchrystal1670 Před 2 lety +7

      No they didn’t, for crying out loud look at the state of this country now, British Gas are trying to dismiss their workforce and re-employ them on less money and poor working conditions, this was exactly what the people of Liverpool were fighting for. Just check your history, up until a few years before this dockers we’re employed as casual labour and the dockers has no idea how they were going to feed their families. If you want to comment then check on what you are commenting on

  • @Bill-cv1xu
    @Bill-cv1xu Před 2 lety +4

    The shop steward was on point,a fine representation..

  • @philmcchrystal1670
    @philmcchrystal1670 Před 2 lety +5

    Poor management leads to poor industrial relationships

  • @ralphmillais5237
    @ralphmillais5237 Před 2 lety +5

    These people were delusional. They were soon unemployed. Mugs. Yet you go there now and you still hear people blaming Thatcher for the fact they are personal failures. Mugs never learn.

    • @krisburgess2857
      @krisburgess2857 Před 2 lety +2

      What the hell are u talking about mate thatcher destroyed the whole labor movement in the 1980’s mate u need to take your rose colared glasses off

    • @ralphmillais5237
      @ralphmillais5237 Před 2 lety +2

      @@krisburgess2857 I suppose it is Thatcher's fault you cannot write properly.

  • @dackesjulag
    @dackesjulag Před 2 lety +4

    And you can see why now Liverpool went into decline and its nothing to do with the tories.

  • @marklola12
    @marklola12 Před 2 lety +1

    Horrid accent, Liverpool has the worst accent in the whole of UK, 2nd is Gordie's

    • @jon123xyz
      @jon123xyz Před 2 lety +4

      Give it up. Your attitude is dead.

    • @TomTom-gh1nf
      @TomTom-gh1nf Před rokem

      Bad whopper

    • @margarethoughton3577
      @margarethoughton3577 Před rokem

      Silly Arse😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 10 měsíci

      Mancunian is also appalling. And South Yorkshire. Terrible places, terrible accents.
      (I'm not hating: I feel sorry for the people there.)

    • @johndowd5792
      @johndowd5792 Před měsícem

      Knobhead ! Scouse power.