Word: grunwick
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Meanwhile, a 46-week-old strike in London has become a riveting symbol of the Labor government's failure to keep labor peace. Charter Road in northwest London has become the scene of ugly battles between police and protesters as a result of a walkout at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories...
Just Nonunion. The strike, which has been dubbed "the Grunwick siege" by pro-Tory London papers, began as a relatively simple labor problem. Last August Mrs. Jayaben Desai, a tiny Indian immigrant from Tanzania, walked off her job as a film processor in protest against the low wages ($42.50 a week), poor working conditions and compulsory overtime imposed on the predominantly Asian work force by Grunwick's Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union...