Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.602
Object Name
Banner
Title
GRUNWICK STRIKE COMMITTEE. DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE. TGWU.APEX
Place
Willesden & London; [India]
People
Association Of Professional, Executive, Clerical And Computer Staffs; Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
Events
Grunwick Strike
Date
1976
Description
OSP script: Grunwick Strike Committee banner, 1976
Jayandi, one of the striking workers who had some art school training, designed this Grunwick banner and painted it with the help of Vipin Magdani, a member of the strike committee.
Influenced by the work of the Russian artist El Lissitzky it bears the initials of the two unions involved; the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staffs and the Transport and General Workers' Union.
Materials: Acrylic paints on unbleached cotton fabric
Grunwick was a film and photograph processing laboratory in Northwest London. Six immigrant workers started the Grunwick strike in August 1976. They were prompted by low pay, compulsory overtime and harsh management. Grunwick workers, the majority of whom were Indian women migrants, were being paid just ã28 a week at the time, compared to a national industrial average of ã76.
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