The Big Strike

Everybody round here used to work at Grindley and Bundage. But they closed the factory down and moved the work to Thailand or Latvia or somewhere. They’ve still got the Head Office and the IT Division at GB House in Stockport—that’s where I was. It was soon after the big strike—everybody remembers that, me mum and dad were both in it. The cleaners were out on strike but then the rest came out even though the cleaners were a different firm! So it was unofficial. They got together in a group to encourage the other strikers. Now that IS antisocial. It affects society.