The Building Workers’ Charter was a workers' rights campaign launched in 1970 with branches in
Glasgow
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Manchester
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Wigan
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Leicester
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Stoke
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and
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by 1971.
[McGuire, C., Clarke, L. and Wall, C. (2013) 'Battle on the Barbican: The Struggle for Trade Unionism in the British Building Industry, 1965–7', ''History Workshop Journal'', No. 73]
They were active in the campaign to abolish the '
Lump Labour Scheme
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' and played a significant role in the 1972
National Strike.
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References
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Political organisations based in the United Kingdom