Anyone heard of the Shrewsbury 24?

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24 Mar 2013, 5:03 pm

Shrewsbury 24 Campaign

I got an email to sign the petition to make the UK Government release documents relating to this. But I never heard of it before.

Sounds like pretty bad stuff going on even before Thatcher came along.

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24 Mar 2013, 5:23 pm

"Who Were the Shrewsbury 24?"

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The Shrewsbury 24 were trade unionists who had taken part in a successful national strike of building workers in 1972 to back up their demands for better pay and conditions. The Tory government of the time instructed the police to investigate alleged picketing incidents that had taken place in Shrewsbury, where unions were poorly organised.

This is 40-year old news, along with Many Other Newsworthy Events of the same year.

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27 Mar 2013, 1:27 pm

They are currently campaigning to make the UK government release papers relating to the case, which they say was an injustice.

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28 Mar 2013, 4:34 pm

Robdemanc wrote:

Thatcher was Minister of Education in that government, dubbed "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher".

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30 Mar 2013, 3:43 am

xenon13 wrote:

Robdemanc wrote:

Thatcher was Minister of Education in that government, dubbed "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher".

Perhaps she was behind it then, it was a practice run for her on her march to power.

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