Quote Originally Posted by CASPER-64-FRANK View Post
Not enough demand for Steel could have contributed to your Grandfather losing his job. I also had relatives at Hadfields and BSC.
The orders Hadfields gained when BSC was on strike didn't do too much good, when BSC workers went back to work the lost orders came back with them.Hadfields made almost 2k redundant not too long after that steel strike and finally closed in 1983, two years after the strike.

Divide and conquer.

Ah well, fair enough