Radio Trent, the commercial radio station in Nottingham, was the scene last week of the first militant struggle by workers in independent radio.
when a reactionar anti-union mandou ment - which nas so tar relused to sion national noreements coverine mannum pay and conditions - sacked programme director Bob Snyder la member of the the Association of Broadcasting Staff) on the spot, the combined membership of the unions on the station (ABS and Natonal union or Journalists nei an urgent stop-work meeting.
This became a 36-hour sit-in as manage. ment agreed only 'to go through the motions' of seeing an ABS official about the and journalists) occupied the mastercontrol studio, recucme me station s out a scab relative of the firm's chairman! Victory that in future it would abide by the in dustry's agreements on job security and protection against arbitrary dismissals.
industry that the unions are now a torce to be seriously reckoned with.
DAVIS case. The workers (disc jockeys, engineers put to a rushed series of records played by This all-night sit-in resulted in total management capitulation when the ABS official arrived to demand the full and immediate reinstatement of Snyder. The firm agreed The message has filtered through this new
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