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THE right-wing media is no longer managing to turn the public against strikers, a miners’ memorial event in Barnsley on Saturday heard.
Sarah Woolley, general secretary of bakers’ union the BFAWU, delivered the annual Memorial Lecture in memory of David Jones and Joe Green, two Yorkshire miners killed on the picket lines during the strike against pit closures of 1984-5.
“The right-wing media is not having the same effect,” she said.
“People are coming to the picket lines and talking to us. College students asking what they can do to support them, people throwing in a tenner, bringing biscuits and a brew.”
But she said there was a problem because young people were not taught the history of the labour and trade union movement in school.
“We know this is deliberate,” she said.
But she said young people were becoming active and coming together anyway on issues such as climate change.
“We need to be talking to them,” she said.
