The photograph shows Reg Harris of the Transport and General Workers Union addressing a meeting in a back garden.

The factory was due to close. TheFurniture Timber and Allied Trades Union and Len Buckingham are mentioned.

Shop steward Fred Leach was ejected from a Trades Union Congress conference at Blackpool after protesting about the plight of the factories in Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

More than 500 members of the National union of Public Employees turned up outside the council house to lobby councillors and stop education spending cuts. Les Roberts is quoted.

400 workers to lose their jobs. Hednesford is mentioned, and in the photograph from left are union leaders Ted Cooper, George Large and Arthur Gullick.

The photograph shows Peter Snape MP looking at a Jensen Healey engine with Stan Webb (left) and Chris Francis of the Transport and General Workers’ Union.

A strike metting took place to discuss the latest offer, including officials from the Transport and General Workers’ Union.

Strike negotiations over pay. The photograph shows shop stewards leaving Transport House, West Bromwich, with Transport and General Workers Union official Brian Mathers (right)

The factory was due to be closed. Christopher Harvey, the Dudley and District Chamber of Commerce, Jim Payne, and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers are mentioned.

Dudley Council joined the fight to save the steelworks as officials warned of job losses. MP John Blackburn is mentioned.