Roberts Arundel Strike

STOCKPORT Trades Council will be hosting an evening of discussion about the Roberts Arundel strike fought in Stockport from November 1966.  The strike saw militant picket lines and 30,000 engineering workers from accross the north-west of England stopped work in support of the Stockport workers.

Jim Arnison, author of The One Million Pound Strike, described the dispute as one of the 'biggest strikes in the history of the trade union movement and involved the most basic freedom of all workers — the right to organise.'

Geoff Brown will deliver a short presentation on the strike using archived footage and then we will encourage further discussion.

Venue : 7 Miles Out Cafe, 20 Market Place, Stockport, SK1 1EY, Thursday 16 November

Doors open 7.00 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. start. All welcome. Refreshments will be available.

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