15th June 2005, 12:25 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Alfie
I was just thinking..does anyone have examples of strike action by diggers? I can only remember one case: Elms farm excavation 1991, 120 diggers walked off site.
I worked on the Elms Farm site, (wasn't it in 1994?) and was one of those who walked off that afternoon. As far as I remember, it didn't have much to do with pay or living conditions (which weren't all that bad), but was to do with the atrocious machining policy being followed on the site, whereby much of the upper strat contained within the subsoil was ending up on the back of a dumper.