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Appeal to public to boycott Grunwick’s photo processing business

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University; GMB

The strikers on the picket line

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Spare Rib highlights Grunwick women strikers and their supporters

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Asian women protest their low basic and overtime pay

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Asian women protest their low basic and overtime pay

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Strike committee calls for mass union solidarity action to support Post Office workers right to boycott Grunwick mail

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Poster

From the private collection of Al Garthwaite, Vera Media

Grunwick weekly pay rates 1976 – scarcely higher than strike pay

GRU Collection, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Mao Tse Tung’s famous acknowledgement of women applied to Grunwick workers

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Strikers on the picket line

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Jayaben Desai talks about the ways in which women picketing at Grunwick challenged community assumptions about South Asian women’s gender roles

(Ann Rossiter, Spare Rib Jan 1977 Issue 54, p.18.) TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

APEX leaflet advising pickets on their rights if arrested

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University; GMB

Support for black and Asian Grunwick workers from the Caribbean and Indian Workers Organisations

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

London Women’s Anti-Fascist and Anti racist Group calls on unions to see the Grunwick dispute as a women’s issue as well as an anti racist struggle for union recognition

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Asian women picketing outside Grunwick

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University; Morning Star, December 15, 1976

APEX leader Roy Grantham declares it is not union policy to support the strike committee’s demands for solidarity pickets at the gates of Grunwick

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University; Willesden & Brent Chronicle, April 7, 1978

Defiant Grunwick workers, including Jayaben Desai, stage hunger strike on the steps of Congress House

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University; Morning Star, November 22, 1977

Grunwick strike committee accuses TUC of hiding behind ACAS to allow the dispute to die quietly

TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University; Morning Star, July 15, 1978

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