Central News East: 28.10.1986: Women's Pay

Summary

Nick Franklin report on the findings of a survey that has found that women earn on average two thirds of the pay of men in the food and drink industry.

Year:

1986

Duration:

0:02:12

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

Betacam SP

Description

Library pictures of women working in food and drink including a factory making chocolate. Interview with Steve Pickering, Regional Secretary of the GMB Union who said that women in bottom grade jobs were not being paid on a level with men. Interview with Irene Baker, Convenor and with Frances Everton, test kitchen assistant, who was being paid less than a male assistant who had less experience at the Beatrice Butterball chicken factory in Lincoln. Establishing shots of the Butterball factory.


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