Car Industry and trades unions 1980s38

22-11-1979 - Derek Robinson on the picket line, during the strike against his sacking at the Austin Morris British Leyland Longbridge plant. © John Sturrock

04-01-1981 - British Leyland car workers leaving a mass meeting Birmingham 1981 having voted not to strike in support of trade union officials accused of leading a factory riot © John Harris

02-10-1981 - Striking British Leyland car workers lobby trade union officials against acceptance of 3.8% pay offer Birmingham 1981 © John Harris

02-11-1981 - Jack Adams TGWU Convenor, BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge. November 1981 © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge. November 1981 © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge. November 1981 © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - Convenors Brian Chambers (AEU facing camera) and Jack Adams (TGWU) address BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge. November 1981 © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - Jack Adams TGWU Convenor, BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge. November 1981 © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge. November 1981 © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - Jack Adams TGWU with mike, amd Brian Chambers AEU on platform at BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge and Media .BL November 1981 © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - BL Mass meeting Cofton Park, Longbridge. November 1981 Over the tops of heads of Jack Adams (bald rhs bottom and Brian Chambers lhs bottom). © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - Picket Line at BL Longbridge. November 1981 Les Huckfield Labour MP for Nuneaton is on the far left (!). Jack Adams and Derek Robinson also present for the TGWU. © Roy Peters

02-11-1981 - Convenors Jack Adams (TGWU) and Brian Chambers (AEU) at British Leyland (BL) Mass meeting outside the car factory, Longbridge. November 1981 © Roy Peters

22-10-1982 - British Leyland engineering workers picket, 1982 Leyland, Lancashire. On strike against redundancies © John Harris

01-03-1983 - British Leyland BL car workers voting at a mass meeting during a over rest breaks dispute Cowley Oxford © John Harris

01-03-1983 - British Leyland BL car workers voting at a mass meeting during their hand washing dispute Cowley Oxford © John Harris

01-03-1983 - Striking British Leyland BL car workers picketing during dispute Cowley Oxford, Alan Thornet is on the left. © John Harris

01-03-1983 - Striking British Leyland BL car workers picketing during dispute Cowley Oxford © John Harris

04-03-1983 - British Leyland BL car workers leaving a mass meeting at the Cowley plant Oxford during hand washing dispute © John Harris

04-03-1983 - Car workers at a trades union mass meeting, British Leyland car factory Cowley Oxford 1983 during a strike over hand washing times © John Harris

04-03-1983 - Striking British Leyland BL car workers picketing Cowley Oxford 1983 during their hand washing dispute © John Harris

04-03-1983 - Car workers at a trades union mass meeting, British Leyland car factory Cowley Oxford 1983 during a strike over hand washing times © John Harris

08-02-1988 - Ford workers from the Dagenham plant trying to persuade their fellow workers not to cross their picket line during an official dispute in support of higher pay at the car production company. © Stefano Cagnoni

08-02-1988 - Striking Ford workers Dagenham, persuading their fellow workers not to cross their picket line during an official dispute in support of higher pay, 1988 © Stefano Cagnoni

08-02-1988 - Ford workers from the Dagenham plant trying to persuade their fellow workers not to cross their picket line during an official dispute in support of higher pay at the car production company. © Stefano Cagnoni

18-02-1988 - Worried Ford car workers mass meeting 1988 about the future of the factory and redundancies, Halewood Cheshire © John Harris

22-02-1988 - Mass picket at Land Rover Solihull plant where 6,000 car workers strike in a pay dispute. © John Harris

03-03-1982 - British Leyland workers mass meeting rejecting 3.8% pay offer and continue their strike Longbridge car plant, Birmingham 1982 © John Harris

01-03-1982 - British Leyland workers mass meeting voting to reject a 3.8% pay offer and continue their strike Longbridge car plant, Birmingham 1982 © John Harris

10-11-1979 - Harold Musgrove (L) Rover Group press conference November 1979 Trade unions given a Three Minute Warning to end their strike for the reinstament of sacked Convener Derek Robinson © John Harris

03-04-1973 - Ford Dagenham mass meeting of all the 50,000 workers at the plant. © Peter Arkell

02-04-1971 - Ford workers at Dagenham voting on the latest offer during the strike. © Peter Arkell

31-03-1971 - Ford strike 1971. Sell Out! Ford workers at the Basildon tractor factory show what they think about the settlement at the end of the national strike. © NLA

31-03-1971 - Moss Evans, TGWU leading official for car workers, is lifted shoulder-high by Ford workers at the end of their bitter strike in 1971. Many other Ford workers, by contrast, accused the unions of a sell... © Martin Mayer

23-03-1988 - Mass meeting of thousands of car workers on strike at Land Rover in a pay dispute, Solihull, Birmingham 1988 © John Harris

23-03-1988 - Mass meeting of thousands of car workers on strike at Land Rover in a pay dispute, Solihull, Birmingham 1988 © John Harris

23-03-1988 - Mass meeting of thousands of car workers on strike at Land Rover in a pay dispute, Solihull, Birmingham 1988 © John Harris

30-03-1983 - Workers going to work on their bikes, British Leyland Cowley, Oxford. No Vacancies sign. © John Sturrock