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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

11612

Title

ORGANISING THE UNION AT MEDIA CITY CONSTRUCTION SITE, SALFORD QUAYS

Producer

Richard Searle

Date

2010

Gauge

.mp4

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

2 mins 2 secs

Description

A short film shot on Oldham Street, Manchester and asking workers at the Media City construction site in Salford to join the Unite union and featuring two site workers and Jerry Hicks who is standing for election as General Secretary of the Unite Union. The workers and activists tell how the site, the biggest construction site in the UK, is non-unionised and how the workers are being exploited and paid under the national wage.

 

 



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