The Day Engineers' Go-Slow Shut All R-R Factory Gates
Derby Evening Telegraph › September 20, 2009
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Thirty years ago today Rolls-Royce locked out 11,000 workers at its factories across Derby. It was the culmination of a dispute involving thousands of engineering workers and saw the firm plunged into its second major crisis in less than 10 years. Jane Goddard looks back at those momentous events in September 1979 ON September 19, 1979, thousands of workers were turned away from Rolls-Royce factories across Britain as a national pay dispute involving the country's engineering workers escalated.
A series of weekly two-day engineers' strikes over the previous few weeks had brought Britain's manufacturing industry to its knees and, in Derby, had forced Rolls-Royce to cut its production by twothirds.See the full content of this document
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The Day Engineers' Go-Slow Shut All R-R Factory Gates
With workers sticking steadfast to a strict three-day working week, with no overtime, manufacturing became impossible.
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