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Actions	Roberts-Arundel Strike Committee papers Remove from selection Add to selection TitleRoberts-Arundel Strike Committee papers ReferenceEVT/ROBERTS Date 1965-1971 Production date 1965 - 1971 Scope and ContentRecords of strike at Roberts Arundel in Stockport - In July 1965 the Roberts group acquired the old Arundel Coulthard and its subsidiaries and changed name to Roberts-Arundel in Aug 1965. In November the company engaged women workers after having made male workers redundant. A failure to agree was registered and the company was requested not to hire any more women workers until dispute progressed as laid down in Procedures in Engineering Agreement. However the company engaged two more women and negotiations broke down on 28 Nov 1966, with claim that company in breach of national agreement. Strike was made official on 6 Dec. Company resigned from Employers Association and firm's products blacked by AEU and supplies blacked by other unions. Strike called over basic issues of union recognition and collective bargaining. An agreement was almost reached which would have meant men being re-employed as work became available in Sep 1967 but broke down when union insisted that all men be re-employed. Terms were agreed in Apr 1968 but production had ceased in Jan. The Union claimed a victory on the principle of union recognition and collective bargaining but only 12 men were re-employed and 57 remaining strikers were made redundant. The strike lasted 532 days The National Archives holds official records relating to the strike at LAB 10/2966 Stockport Local Heritage Centre held an exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of the strike in 2017 for which they used WCML records Extent8 boxes LanguageEnglish Persons keywordRoberts-Arundel, Amalgamated Engineering Union SubjectStrikes Conditions governing accessOpen Levelfonds Normal locationAG Roberts Arundel Boxes 1-8 (Room 37) Hierarchy browser EVT/ROBERTS Roberts-Arundel Strike Committee papers 1965-1971 fonds contains 1 part(s)

TitleRoberts-Arundel Strike Committee papers

ReferenceEVT/ROBERTS

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1965-1971

Production date 1965 - 1971

Scope and ContentRecords of strike at Roberts Arundel in Stockport - In July 1965 the Roberts group acquired the old Arundel Coulthard and its subsidiaries and changed name to Roberts-Arundel in Aug 1965. In November the company engaged women workers after having made male workers redundant. A failure to agree was registered and the company was requested not to hire any more women workers until dispute progressed as laid down in Procedures in Engineering Agreement. However the company engaged two more women and negotiations broke down on 28 Nov 1966, with claim that company in breach of national agreement. Strike was made official on 6 Dec. Company resigned from Employers Association and firm's products blacked by AEU and supplies blacked by other unions. Strike called over basic issues of union recognition and collective bargaining. An agreement was almost reached which would have meant men being re-employed as work became available in Sep 1967 but broke down when union insisted that all men be re-employed. Terms were agreed in Apr 1968 but production had ceased in Jan.
The Union claimed a victory on the principle of union recognition and collective bargaining but only 12 men were re-employed and 57 remaining strikers were made redundant. The strike lasted 532 days
The National Archives holds official records relating to the strike at LAB 10/2966
Stockport Local Heritage Centre held an exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of the strike in 2017 for which they used WCML records

Extent8 boxes

LanguageEnglish

Persons keywordRoberts-Arundel, Amalgamated Engineering Union

SubjectStrikes

Conditions governing accessOpen

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Normal locationAG Roberts Arundel Boxes 1-8 (Room 37)

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