Talk:National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)

message: Big additions, but the article could stand to be greatly expanded. Will return to flesh out details, but wouldn't mind some help, especially on the 1970s. Mattley 22:09, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The British mining industry was the most productive in the world.  It was only troubled because Germany subsidised theirs by four times as much and France by three times as much.  To be fair to Thatcher, she wasn't the only one.  A huge number of pits closed in the '60s.  Scotland was the main coalfield after the war, but there were only 8 Scottish pits left by 1984.
The Socialist Party of England and Wales have released publications referring to the 84/85 strike as 'a civil war without guns'.  I do think the section is biased against the NUM, for a start, it claims that certain pits were unprofitable without even providing a citation!  Common knowledge?  I don't think so, in fact I would argue with some certainty that UK coal mining was the most cost-effective in Europe, my granddad would still argue this with ABSOLUTE certainty.  The point regarding the secret ballot is accurate, as Andrew Marr uses footage from the ballot of 1972 in his series on the history of postwar Britain, and that footage clearly shows the use of a secret ballot system.  Anyone who has seen that footage and still claims that the NUM did not use the secret ballot is probably thick enough to believe that mines were unprofitable, or that there was a lack of general support (inside or outside the union) for the 84/85 strike.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.86.3.221 (talk) 02:48, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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message: The National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa) is a large (albeit much younger) union as well. If there is no objection I'd like to move this page to National Union of Mineworkers (United Kingdom) in a couple days to make room for a disambig page. --Bookandcoffee 18:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Got all excited - but it isn't really doing any harm the way it is. I'll leave the disambig and name change till more work is done on the South African article.--Bookandcoffee 00:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, never in Ireland or Ulster -- the NUM organised exclusively coal mines and Irish mines are ferro/non-ferrous metal mines. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 20:26, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
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message: There is little or no context to the events of 1984/5 except from the miners POV. Also there is little or no history of the NUM or other events since 1945, such as the 1974 strike which crippled the UK and reduced much of the economic / manufacturing output to a that of a Three-Day Week, much of this history would actually put the political policy and the NUM '84/5 reaction to it into context. Sorry but this whole article needs to be re edited, with a NPOV rather than a POV slant. (SouthernElectric 16:54, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of a [[NPOV]] to this article 

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