Five discussions on questions facing trade unionists today
3--Compulsory Overtime
Harry Phipps
Branch Official of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and a pipe-fitter welder in a Manchester chemical works
John Plant
A member of the Transport and General Workers' Union and Branch Chairman in a London bus garage
Asa Briggs
Professor of Modern History in the University of Leeds, formerly Reader in Recent Social and Economic History in the University of Oxford
Changes in organisation and in methods constantly give industry new problems to solve. Until fresh principles are agreed and established, these problems tend to recur again and again as causes of industrial unrest.
In each of the programmes of this series two trade unionists and an economic historian discuss one of the principles that has been at stake in recent industrial disputes.