More miners quit union
NZPA-Reuter London A breakaway movement of British coalminers gained strength yesterday when a 560-man pit in central England voted decisively to leave the militant National Union of Mineworkers. Union officials at the Agecroft Colliery, in Salford, outside Manchester, said that the vote to join the 33,000-strong Union of Democratic Miners had
been carried 322 to 90. The breakaway movement started in July when miners in Nottinghamshire voted to split with the N.U.M., mainly to protest against the way its leader, Arthur Scargill, waged a failed year-long strike against planned pit closures without balloting members. The Agecroft workers add their support to other disgruntled miners in the Dur-
ham, South Derbyshire, Warwickshire, and Lancashire areas in challenging the N.U.M., which groups some 150,000 miners.
Breakaway Nottinghamshire miners voted yesterday to accept a 6 per cent pay rise offered by the State-run National Coal Board. This is a factor that has encouraged the split and precedes any proposed wage increase for N.U.M. members.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19851112.2.82
Bibliographic details
Press, 12 November 1985, Page 10
Word Count
165More miners quit union Press, 12 November 1985, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.