Talk:National Union of Mineworkers

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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)

The part of the article relating to the '84-'85 Strike is clearly biased against the Miners. Scargill may have been "hardline" but not as hardline as Maggie. She set out to deliberately to destroy an industry with the full apparatus of state power. The terrible truth is she won but in the process started what was called at the time a second civil war in the UK.

Holden 27

Hardly. The mines concerned were losing money. Whether Thatcher should have subsidised the mines is a valid question, but you would have to provide some evidence if you want to say she deliberately destroyed the industry. The remains of the industry closed down in the early 90s, after Thatcher had been removed.

"second civil war" - nonsense. Who called it that?

The bit in the article about ballots is inaccurate. The NUM DID use the secret ballot for strike action long before it became mandatory. I will remove it unless someone can defend it.

Exile 14:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

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.

[edit] National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)

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)

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)