Made in Dagenham Page #4

it's lovely. In Vogue.

Oh, thanks. It's Biba.

Is it? Well...

Well, it's still gorgeous.

Have a good day, yeah?

You too. Be good.

And you.

Hell, Sandra. I think you've had

a bit of shrinkage in the wash.

Hot pants. Mary Quants.

Give them back to her,

they look painful.

I think they look lovely.

Thanks.

It's like what Brenda said, isn't it?

This ain't Knightsbridge, it's Dagenham.

If you wanna get spotted,

you gotta stand out more.

And that's exactly

what I'm gonna do.

- Yesterday were great, weren't it?

- Being on strike?

Yeah.

It's a glimpse, isn't it?

Of how it could be.

Well, that's what

it's about, isn't it?

Pitch-bleeding-black. I couldn't

see me hand in front of me face.

Finally when he turns the lights on, it

was actually stuck to me bottom lash.

She got fired.

Blimey.

I'm here, just. Oh, Christ.

Connie? Con?

Rita, I...

No, I just wanna say something.

Sorry, I just, um...

If I was to get a bit more involved,

you know, with Albert,

it's only because

I've got a gob on me.

You're the heartbeat of

this place, always have been.

Rita, look at me,

all at sixes and sevens.

You can do this and

you should.

Here we go.

Man!

Brian.

Hello, Brian.

Is that a cotton bob in your pocket

or a hard-on?

- What's he doing?

- Having a fiddle.

Here, Con. Pass them out, girls.

Yeah, come on, Rita.

Go on, Rita. Give them hell.

Ignore it.

Ignore it?

Standard issue,

day after a walkout.

Have you

seen the language?

"Your aggressive disregard

for the existing complaints procedure."

Tone of that?

They don't mean it.

So why are they saying it?

That's how we've always done it.

All the other strikes.

It's like the rules.

Oh, no, no, no. I'm sorry.

Sorry, we ain't playing

that game. We ain't your men.

We're us. And we certainly won't

be addressed in this manner.

No.

All those in favor

of not only maintaining

but increasing our current action

by going to an all-out stoppage

until we get the same rates of pay

as the men?

What?

Equal pay?

Why not? Because that's what

this is really about, isn't it?

We're on the lowest rate

in the whole factory

despite the fact

we've got considerable skill.

And there's only one possible

reason for that.

It's because we're women.

Yeah.

And in the workplace, women get paid

less no matter what skill they got.

Which is why, from now on,

we gotta demand a level playing field

and rates of pay

which reflect the job,

not whether you've got

a dick or not.

This strike is about one thing

and one thing only: fairness.

- Yeah.

- That's right.

Equal pay or nothing.

Yes.

All those in favor?

Yes.

Everybody out.

Well, it's got

nothing to do with me.

An all-out stoppage?

Also, the specifics of this

strike, they've widened out a bit.

Christ.

Sh*t.

F***ing Ada. Equal pay?

What were you thinking, Monty?

It wasn't me, it was Albert.

He went behind me back.

Really, Monty?

He's a loose cannon.

You wanna haul someone

over the coals, he's your man.

The bloody troublemaker.

Get him in.

I tried to protect you, Albert.

But you're gonna get

such a f***ing bollocking.

Come on, then.

This is awkward, Albert.

You know that, don't you?

It jeopardizes a whole raft

of other negotiations

that the unions are already at

loggerheads with management over.

Look, comrade,

basically, you encouraging

these women to get all militant...

It shifts resources

away from the blokes,

who are the ones at the coalface.

We ain't unsympathetic,

but as a union, we have

to remember who comes first.

The Communist Party

and Marx himself said:

"Men write their own history."

That's "men," Albert.

But didn't he also say,

"Progress can be measured by the

social position of the female sex"?

Or was that a different Marx?

That was Groucho, was it?

Equal pay across the board.

You telling me that

ain't worth fighting for?

Of course it is.

And you know it.

I'll tell you something.

This Rita has got a bigger set of balls

than you three put together.

And she ain't scared to

lay them on the line neither.

And I, for one, am gonna help her.

And if you are

what you say you are,

an organization pledged

to support its members,

then you'll get off your lazy, fat arses

and you'll help her too.

Good f***ing evening.

They can't expect us to

carry on being graded unskilled.

Unskilled, my arse.

We're here to put across our point of

view about what's going on. It ain't fair.

And also about how it's a part

of something bigger, much bigger.

What about a little bit of support

this way?

Come on, mate.

You might learn something

if you just listened.

The time has come for

all women to say "enough."

We do not and we will not

accept this any longer.

Ow!

Dad, the pan.

Bollocks!

No, Daddy didn't mean that.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

That was magnificent.

That was wonderful.

Be back in a minute.

You're doing the same

work for Ford here in Liverpool

that we're doing for them

down in Dagenham.

So you know that our job is skilled.

She's a bit of all right.

Think beyond that.

I'm asking you to strike now

for all women, not just machinists.

Leave him alone.

He's gotta concentrate.

Go, get back.

Have a word with him.

And what is right

is that every single one of us

is entitled to the same pay as men.

Yeah!

That's my girl.

Will all those in favor

please put your hands in the air now?

Yeah!

Yeah.

Well...

How'd you get on?

We slaughtered them. Every

single one of them came out.

It was incredible

though, Eddie.

Well done.

Go and check on the kids.

Give them a quick kiss good night.

Gonna take some money, all right?

Oh, no. What happened?

Dad.

Tell him to give it

another go, yeah?

I'm off. See you later. You're all

right taking them to school, aren't you?

Of course.

You're all right with that?

Everything's all right, isn't it?

Yeah, why wouldn't it be?

No reason. Have a good day.

See you later.

This is my last one.

Ey?

The shirt, I just noticed.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry, I forgot.

Forgot washing Monday.

I'll do it tonight.

Right.

- Take care of your dad.

- Bye, Mum.

Have a good day.

Oh, dear.

Come on.

Come on, girls.

Equal pay.

Equal pay.

Equal pay.

Which way?

Wait a minute.

No, Ri, it's here.

It's down this way.

It must be up here.

Anyone got a map?

There.

- There it is.

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, here we are.

- Here we go.

We want respect. We want respect.

We want respect. We want respect.

Get the banner up.

Look, get that.

There.

Equal pay for women!

- I'll support you.

- Thank you for your support.

Equal pay for women.

Women workers for equal pay.

- We want respect.

- Darling, over here.

We want respect!

Hey!

Hello.

I finish at 4. Give us a call, love?

I never thought

we'd get this backing.

Show us what you got.

Hold on, girls!

We're not entirely unfurled, look.

Don't we all?

I know the feeling.

Don't look, boys.

In their campaign for equal pay,

women workers

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