Made in Dagenham evaluation action
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Ignatius 2022-04-01 09:01:19
There are so many familiar faces, Su La in Fingersmith, Detective Lace in Sherlock, and your circle is really small. . . The most sympathetic part is that Rita yells at her husband, you don't drink, gamble, and beat children. You are a saint, but isn't that what it should be? !
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Kristoffer 2022-04-23 07:05:45
Tears filled my eyes several times, crying and laughing... Exciting! !
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[Peter Hopkins is entertaining Ford boss Robert Tooley at home. He clearly regards Lisa as a wife whose only purpose is to look pretty and to be a cook, but Robert sounds out her opinions]
Robert Tooley: Lisa. Do you mind if I call you Lisa? You must have quite a head on your shoulders. Peter tells me that you read history at Cambridge.
Lisa Hopkins: [nervously] Yes I did.
Robert Tooley: Mind if I ask: what do you think of our little problem over at the factory? Do you think maybe he's a bit too much velvet glove, not enough iron fist?
Lisa Hopkins: Not at all, no. Quite the opposite, actually. Look at Vauxhall. *They* don't have any problems with the unions. And that seems to be because General Motors have a more collaborative approach to management. Whereas at Ford you only deal with the unions because you *have* to. You tolerate them. And as a result they're more entrenched and they're aggressive in their dealings with you.
[Robert and Peter look speechless]
Robert Tooley: [patronisingly] Well that's a very *progressive* point of view.
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Rita O'Grady: Bollocks. I'm sorry, but it is. Three hours we've been sat here. That's what matters to the girls? How you're qualified to talk about that, I do not know.
Rita O'Grady: [she pulls out threads of leather] Have a look at this. There. You put them together, go on!
Ford executive: Ford property, I believe?
Rita O'Grady: Oh stop it! We have to pick all these different pieces and work out how they go together. Cause there ain't no template is there? We have to take them all and sow them one by one into the finished article. That is not unskilled work! Which is how you've regraded us! Christ, you need to take an exam to...
Peter Hopkins: Miss O'Grady...
Rita O'Grady: No it's Mrs. O'Grady.
Peter Hopkins: Mrs. O'Grady I understand your grievances...
Rita O'Grady: Oh I don't think you do! It's not difficult, though. We're entitled to semi-skilled and the wages that go with it.
Peter Hopkins: Why don't you bring this to the meeting...
Rita O'Grady: No hang on, I haven't finished. And regards to these cue jumping business, we put this complaint in months ago. It's just you've done nothing about it. And we all know why don't we? It's cause women have never been on strike before. You just thought you could forget it and we'll go away, well I'm sorry but it isn't going to be that easy, cause we're not going anywhere. We're gonna do what we said we would: no more overtime, and an immediate twenty-four hour stoppage.