Cousins, David
2013 "Cousins, David", 2013, HistoryTalk Dave Cousins was brought up in Brixton in the 40s. He left school in 1951 and started work at a metal engraving company in West Norwood, making name and number plates. Then he joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, got a job at the Joe Lyons cornerho...
| Institution: | TUC - Trade Union Congress Library |
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| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/8DE59335-DD98-4566-9F20-6A5C557595AB http://hdl.handle.net/10796/687064F7-A149-4658-B70E-9457F4BE6EF3 |
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"Cousins, David", 2013, HistoryTalk
Dave Cousins was brought up in Brixton in the 40s. He left school in 1951 and started work at a metal engraving company in West Norwood, making name and number plates. Then he joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, got a job at the Joe Lyons cornerhouse on the Strand at Trafalgar Square and did National Service with the air force. In 1955 he joined the RAF as a personnel clerk and worked in the docks whilst billeted at RAF Kidbrooke. After that Dave worked as a cutter and grinder in various Feltham aviation tool companies. After briefly moving to Sittingbourne in Kent, he returned to Feltham to work at the Timex factory on watch dials and hands, and the Trico windscreen wiper factory on the Great West Road in Brentford, where he became a shop steward before the 1976-77 Trico womens equal pay strike. Then he worked at Heathrow airport and Hoover, Trico again after the strike as a chargehand, Gillette on Great West Road, T&G Engineering, Gillette again and Metal Box.
In this clip he talks about his frustration as tool room representative on the works committee, and how it didn't deal with staff's real concerns.
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