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Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968
The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 was a landmark labour-relations dispute in the United Kingdom. It was a trigger cause of the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970.
==Strike action==
The strike, led by Rose Boland, Eileen Pullen, Vera Sime, Gwen Davis, and Sheila Douglass, began on 7 June 1968, when women sewing machinists at Ford Motor Company Limited's Dagenham plant in London walked out, followed later by the machinists at Ford's Halewood Body & Assembly plant. The women made car seat covers and as stock ran out the strike eventually resulted in a halt to all car production.
The Dagenham sewing machinists walked out when, as part of a regrading exercise, they were informed that their jobs were graded in Category C (less skilled production jobs), instead of Category B (more skilled production jobs), and that they would be paid 15% less than the full B rate received by men.〔(LELR Issue 121 ), Thompsons Law. Retrieved 4 October 2010〕〔(The Reunion ), BBC, published 2003. Retrieved 4 October 2010〕〔(Dagenham car plant stitch-up that triggered fight for equal pay ), The Times, 24 April 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2010〕 At the time it was common practice for companies to pay women less than men, irrespective of the skills involved.〔(Equal Pay Heroes Honoured: Breakthrough 2006 ) The Wainwright Trust, published 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2010〕
Following the intervention of Barbara Castle, the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity in Harold Wilson's government, the strike ended three weeks after it began, as a result of a deal that immediately increased their rate of pay to 8% below that of men, rising to the full category B rate the following year. A court of inquiry (under the Industrial Courts Act 1919) was also set up to consider their regrading, although this failed to find in their favour.〔Report of a Court of Inquiry under Sir Jack Scamp into a dispute concerning sewing machinists employed by the Ford Motor Company Ltd. Author: Jack Scamp, published by HMSO, 1968.〕 The women were only regraded into Category C following a further six-week strike in 1984 (source BBC documentary broadcast 9 March 2013).〔(TUC History )〕
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