Arthur Scargill1972
Leads picketing that helps force closure of Saltley Coke Depot in Birmingham.
Great Britain · Politics / National Union of Mineworkers. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Leads picketing that helps force closure of Saltley Coke Depot in Birmingham.
The NUM bans overtime
The NCB announce closure of Cortonwood in Yorkshire sparking off the Miners Strike
Miners strike in South Yorkshire and some Scottish pits
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
The NUM executive backs nationwide strikes
The NUM National Executive supports Yorkshire & Scotland without a national ballot
Durham and Kent coalfields join the strike
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) chief Arthur Scargill unites various strikes into nationwide industrial action, without a ballot
The beginning of the Miners Strike, during the 1st day 100 pits are closed down
The Midlands, Northeast and Northwest miners vote against strike
Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike
Scargill vetoes a national ballot on the miners strike
The NUM Special Delegate Conference votes to reduce the majority needed for a strike
Rival groups of miners throw stones and hurl bricks at each other when 5,000 working miners stage a right-to-work march
Negotiations begin with the NCB, Scargill says only exhausted pits should close
Scargill arrested on Orgreave picket line
10,000 miners march through London to Parliament. Police arrest 110. Opposition Labor Party accuses Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives of intervening directly to defeat miners. Government affirms it will not interfere in any Coal Board settlement with miners
The battle of Orgreave, 5,000 riot police took on 5,000 protestors, who pelted officers with bricks and stones
Scargill knocked unconscious in Orgreave violence. Police deny he was hit by a truncheon
Steel union leaders reject call for steel strike as 'completely unacceptable.'
South Wales miners assets seized and fined $55,000 for contempt of court over picketing
Miners & police clash at Kellingley
Miners & police clash at Maltby
A Judge rules that the miners strike is illegal
Union fined $200,000 for contempt of court
Pit supervisors vote to strike
Pit supervisors call off their strike
The High Court orders seizure of union funds
The Sunday Times discloses the miners asked Libya for money
Union funds of $3 million seized in Dublin
1,200 miners go back to work
A growing number of miners decide to return to work as Christmas looms
Special union conference votes to fight on
A court fines Scargill for obstruction
Nottinghamshire miners vote to defy union rules
Union votes to expel Nottinghamshire
Miners reject peace plan by trades unionleaders and Government
More than 50 perent of miners back at work
Delegates at an NUM conference decide 98 to 91 to end the strike
The year long miners strike is called off
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