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The trade union movement has been backing an inquiry into the strike, which was led by the president of the National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill.
The 1981 strike succeeded in preventing immediate closures, but six of the seven pits closed within three years, regardless. [1] When a national strike was declared in 1984, the majority of NUM members in South Wales voted against striking. Williams accepted this result, but the strike nevertheless rapidly took hold, and within a week, almost ...
The 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major dispute over pay between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Conservative Edward Heath government of the United Kingdom. Miners' wages had not kept pace with those of other industrial workers since 1960.
Many of those on unofficial strike began to make demands for change in the leadership of the NUM, and they set up strike committees to bypass the official union bodies. [2] The union had avoided making demands of Labour governments since the Second World War , and it had been largely inactive during a period of widespread pit closures under the ...
The union was founded on 24 October 1898, [3] following the defeat of the South Wales miners' strike of 1898. Numerous local coal miners' unions found their funds depleted and decided to merge. Numerous local coal miners' unions found their funds depleted and decided to merge.
Early reports, later denied, suggested that they had been encouraged in this demand by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), the NUM's more militant and fast-growing rival. When the NUM refused to represent their demands and Lonmin refused to meet with them, the aggrieved mineworkers launched the strike on 10 August 2012.
The rump union soon disappeared, with supporters of the Communist Party of Great Britain forming the United Mineworkers of Scotland, and those in favour of a non-political union forming the "Fife, Kinross and District Industrial Trade Union". [6] [5] The United Mineworkers was the more successful, with its membership peaking at roughly half of ...
Lesbians Against Pit Closures (LAPC) were an alliance of lesbian women who came together to support the National Union of Mineworkers and various mining communities during the UK miners' strike of 1984–1985. They were formed after a schism in the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) movement, in November 1984. [1]