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The TUC insist on repealing the Housing Finance & Industrial Relations Acts. Negotiations break down
Strike
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1972
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The NIRC orders a secret ballot for the BR offer which is rejected by 6-1. The arrest of 5 dockers provokes the national Docks Strike. 5 dockers are arrested under the Industrial Relations Act
1974
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The elections main issues are the miners strike & "who governs Britain". An error is reported in the NCBs claim miners earn +8% national average, it is -8%
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Protestants stage a general strike & the Assembly collapses
1981
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Thatchers Conservative Government withdraws plans to close 23 pits in its first major u-turn since coming to power 2 years ago
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Miners vote in favour of a 9.3 per cent pay rise
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Lawson oversees preparations for the possibility of a national coal dispute while serving as Secretary of State for Energy.
1984
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Miners strike in South Yorkshire and some Scottish pits
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The National Coal Board announces plans to cut coal output by 4 million tons to stem annual loss of $340 million a year. National Union of Mineworkers say this will mean closing 20 pits and loss of 20,000 jobs
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Cortonwood colliery strikes over closure plans
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81 pits are out but 83 work normally
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The National Coal Board says Britain has 23 million tons of coal in stock with another 24 million at the power stations
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Union moderates call for a national strike ballot
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The High Court orders miners leaders to stop backing roving pickets
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Violent picketing shuts down more mines. 132 pits shut. Some 136,000 of Britain's 175,000 miners now on strike
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the flying pickets outside Ollerton colliery
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The Government dispatches 3,000 extra police to the Midlands
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The Midlands, Northeast and Northwest miners vote against strike
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Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike
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The Kent NUM loses its case against the Government. The Kent NUM challenge the Governments right to turn away pickets
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Sets up a special committee to deal with the Miners Strike
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London demonstration in support of the miners
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Scargill vetoes a national ballot on the miners strike
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Rival groups of miners throw stones and hurl bricks at each other when 5,000 working miners stage a right-to-work march
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10,000 miners march through London to Parliament. Police arrest 110
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