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Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968

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20: 89:'s government, the strike ended three weeks after it began, as a result of a deal that immediately increased their rate of pay to 8% below that of men, rising to the full category B rate the following year. A court of inquiry (under the Industrial Courts Act 1919) was also set up to consider their regrading, although this failed to find in their favour. The women were only regraded into Category B following a further six-week strike in 1984. 1279: 642: 73:
The Dagenham sewing machinists walked out when, as part of a regrading exercise, they were informed that their jobs were graded in Category C (less skilled production jobs), instead of Category B (more skilled production jobs), and that they would be paid 15% less than the full B rate received by
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Report of a Court of Inquiry under Sir Jack Scamp into a dispute concerning sewing machinists employed by the Ford Motor Company Ltd. Author: Jack Scamp, published by HMSO, 1968.
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men. At the time it was common practice for companies to pay women less than men, irrespective of the skills involved.
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covers and as stock ran out the strike eventually resulted in a halt to all car production at the Dagenham factory.
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spoke of the machinists playing a "very significant part in the history of the struggle for equal pay".
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Women's Worth: the story of the Ford sewing machinists notes by Sue Hastings
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dispute in the United Kingdom. It was a trigger cause of the passing of the
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premièred in London in 2014. The production closed on 11 April 2015.
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National Joint Action Campaign Committee for Women's Equal Rights
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in London walked out, followed later by the machinists at Ford's
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in Britain in terms of pay and conditions of employment. In the
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Dagenham car plant stitch-up that triggered fight for equal pay
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The Wainwright Trust, published 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2010
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in 1973, it also became subject to Article 119 of the 1957
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The movement ultimately resulted in the passing of the
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prohibit inequality of treatment between men and women
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Index


Ford Dagenham
labour-relations
Equal Pay Act 1970
strike
Ford Motor Company Limited's
Dagenham plant
Halewood Body & Assembly plant
car seat
Barbara Castle
Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity
Harold Wilson
trades unionists
National Joint Action Campaign Committee for Women's Equal Rights
demonstration
Trafalgar Square
Equal Pay Act 1970
prohibit inequality of treatment between men and women
second reading
Shirley Summerskill
EEC
Treaty of Rome
Made in Dagenham
William Ivory
Toronto Film Festival
musical adaptation of the film
Equal pay for women
United Kingdom employment equality law
Feminist movement
Automotive industry in the United Kingdom

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