The ITV strike of 1979 | ITV News

In 1979, inflation was 14 and a half per cent, and wage demands were in double figures.
There were strikes by train drivers, nurses, even gravediggers - and newly-elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher vowed to tackle the power of the trade unions.
She was spurred on by a strike here at ITV that began exactly forty years ago tomorrow - and left viewers across the country without their favourite programmes for almost three months!
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