Made in Dagenham Page #9

we're working women.

And so are you.

Very well.

What would it take

to get you back?

Excuse me?

The "something solid."

And mark well, I say something,

not everything.

Well, we'd need...

We'd need a guarantee

that we're gonna get equal pay.

And in the meantime,

we need to move much closer

to the male rate. Now. At Ford.

Seventy-five percent?

Ninety.

Ninety.

At least.

You're putting me

in a very difficult position.

I wasn't too aggressive,

was I?

No.

Mr. Tooley, that risk you were talking

about? I'm going to have to take it.

And from Whitehall we're

getting news that talks between Mrs. Castle

and the striking Ford machinists

are nearing a conclusion.

And a statement is expected

in the next few minutes.

Intense interest here...

Just a moment please, minister.

Yes, of course.

That's Biba, isn't it?

I saw that in a magazine.

Yeah. I have to give it back

at the end of the day.

Is that C&A?

Yes.

Why pay more? That's what I say.

Well, exactly.

I've got the same one at home.

Have you really?

They're ready for you now, minister.

Girls?

Rita? Rita?

Ladies.

No, after you.

Oh, no, no.

After you.

Oh, gosh.

Come on, then. Thank you.

Rita, is it a positive result?

Now, ladies, can I help?

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you very much.

I am delighted to announce

that following our talks this afternoon,

the 187 Ford machinists

will be going back to work

on the first of July.

They will receive an immediate

pay rise of 7 pence an hour.

Which will put them

at 92 percent of the male rate.

However... However, this is not all.

As a result of our discussion,

I can confirm

that the government is in full support

of the creation of an Equal Pay Act.

And by the autumn of this year,

I guarantee appropriate legislation

to ensure that

that act becomes law. Thank you.

Yeah!

More support from the back there.

To celebrate, they let us have

the canteen, and we had a party.

I don't remember much of that.

No, I remember you didn't, no.

And I thought to myself,

there is some of the old spirit

that gave us the success

of the suffragettes.

- We are on strike.

- All of you?

All of us. All us machinists, anyway.

So no car seat covers for Fords?

No, not from us, anyway.

You're still staying out?

Yeah.

You're not going back at all?

No.

Nobody expected us to come out

on strike. Nobody.

What we're fighting for,

we'll stay there until we get it.

Women don't make a habit

of coming out on strike for nothing.

Well, we didn't think we were

that strong.

We didn't think we would

bring Fords to a standstill.

It was all down to us. Us ladies.

And we are ladies,

whatever anybody else may say.

We are ladies.

Everybody out!

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