Look Back at Grunwick

Look Back at Grunwick

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1980

Runtime

0h 24m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

100%

Original Title

Look Back at Grunwick

Production Companies

Newsreel Collective

Description

A RECORD OF THE STRIKE AT GRUNWICK IN 1977. The story of the continuing struggle at Grunwick’s by mainly Indian workers, from July 11th, 1977 until the struggle was lost. It shows the Special Patrol Group attack on the November 7th day of action, how the leadership of the struggle was taken out of the hands of the strike committee, how some of the strike leaders were disciplined by their own union for going on hunger strike outside the TUC in protest at the TUC’s inactivity, and how the post office workers were forced by their union to end their blacking of Grunwick mail. It also shows the beginnings of the similar struggle by immigrant workers at Garner’s Steak Houses in London.