Dick:
I got the sack in 188.., er….1989 (sorry!), for when they privatised the docks there was a crowd of us, 19 of us, and Frank Shilling who’s here was one of them. We got the sack for trade union activities, they… a motorbike turned up at my door at 8:00 one morning and give me the notice. And, er, we then went through, er, the longest industrial tribunal there’s been - for two years. It ended up in the House of Lords where we got, we were supposed to have got reinstated all of us, but they wouldn’t have it. And so that was that! I then had a couple of years of doing nothing. I then got a job at the British Museum where I ended up being the chairman of the joint trade unions (laughs).
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