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Previously unseen footage of a historic moment in industrial history has been uncovered as part of a new BBC Look North project about the Humber Docks.
The amateur footage from spring 1989 shows Goole dock workers picking up compensation cheques.
The pay-out came after the abolition of the National Dock Labour Board.
The workers were involved in a long-running industrial dispute as the government of Margaret Thatcher sought to remove union control of the docks.
The National Dock Labour Board, which had operated since the end of World War II, had guaranteed jobs and wages for decades, but was increasingly seen by the government of the day as a bar to UK ports modernising.
Long-serving workers who signed away their trades union rights received up to £35,000, but many also found they had signed away any job security.
By the following year there were fewer than 10,000 dock workers, down from the peak in the 1960s of 65,000, yet traffic through UK ports had doubled.
The film of Goole docks was found as part of the Look North project examining the importance of the Humber docks to the region.
source: bbc.co.uk
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