FORTY years ago on Saturday, the miners’ strike had been under way for
a month.The strike was known as a “civil war without guns”. It was by far the biggest battle between the state and unions since the 1926 General Strike, accounting for some 30 million days not worked.government against one of the strongest and most militant unions, the National Union of Mineworkers , led by Arthur Scargill. Just as the NUM’s future was at stake, so too was hers and that of the.
And just before the miners’ strike started, Thatcher on March 1, 1984, banned union membership among staff at GCHQ – Government Communications Headquarters – in Cheltenham. Those refusing to give up their membership were sacked. It was no surprise that the level of strike activity fell away quite dramatically and has never recovered. This includes the uptick in strikes since 2022 over the cost of living crisis.
They also successfully used a plan to take on and defeat the strongest unions one at a time in a divide-and-rule strategy. Often this meant making concessions over pay to other workers to stop inter-union alliances being formed. This was because the leading SNP lights were taking up the mantle of “radical Scotland”, precisely at a time when Labour was increasingly found to be wanting. The arrival of the hated poll tax in 1989 merely solidified the movement of the political tectonic plates.
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