Women machinists at Ford's Dagenham car factory have gone on strike. They are protesting about the re-grading of their jobs, feeling they have been treated unfairly compared with the men working ...

the 29-year-old wife of a Ford machinist, 150 Dagenham wives staged a meeting at which they threatened to serve their husbands nothing but sandwiches for Sunday dinner if the strike went through.

In 1968, at the Ford factory in Dagenham, 187 female sewing machinists went on strike. They refused to work because they were being paid 15% less than their male colleagues, despite carrying out ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Ford workers in Dagenham and Stratford walked out in a 24-hour strike as part of a long-running dispute over their alleged “appalling ...

Banbury Operatic Society (BOS) will perform Made in Dagenham, a musical based on the true events of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists' strike. The production will take to the stage at Wykham Theatre ...