Ian Kinloch MacGregorSeptember 1983
Informs the Government he intends to cut the workforce by 64,000 over 3 yrs
Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Informs the Government he intends to cut the workforce by 64,000 over 3 yrs
MacGregors approach to turning the NCB into a profitable concern is similar to the line he had taken at British Steel, cut jobs and close unprofitable pits, this leads to the protracted and increasingly bitter 1984-1985 miners strike
MacGregor retires from the NCB, rejoining Lazards as a non-executive director
Only 15 deep coal mines remain at the time of privatisation in 1994
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