Badge - Miners Support Group
Object
Badge
Production date
1984-1985
Object number
2024.374
Physical Description
Circular badge, beige background with black text.
Object history
Related to the Miners' Strike. This badge belonged to Hackney based civil servants and activists Nik Wood and Mary Pimm.
Personal experiences
Experience shared by Mary Pimm and Nik Wood, Hackney based civil servants and union activists:
They were about defending the existence of mines and their jobs. Thatcher had stocked up on coal for a year or so before, and she decided she was going to take them on. As far as the miners were concerned it was keeping their jobs and the communities that lived on them. As far as the Conservatives were concerned it was an exemplary crushing of the trade unions. I mean, it was the same reason as the GCHQ union, it was the same reason as backing the Silentnight owner. The defeat of these unions was to make a real heavy duty political point, and they won! The trade union movement is a shadow of what it was. The political onslaught, that was the purpose. And it was a success wasn't it? We took a serious beating on that.
There was money collection, and various dos and things to raise money for it that we all tended to go to. Our National Union lent the National Union of Mineworkers an office in our headquarters in Suffolk Street, London.
Associated Event
Associated Person
Associated Place
City of London (Place)
Westminster (Place)
Westminster (Place)
Material
Metal
Plastic
Dimension
Circumference: 38mm
On display?
No
Inscription
CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER
MINERS
SUPPORT
GROUP
MINERS
SUPPORT
GROUP
