AUEW Union
Norman Goodwin (1938–2018)
Obituary for Norman Goodwin, engineering worker.
The 1972 battle of Saltley Gate: “close the gates!”
On the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gate Norman Goodwin, then a shop steward at GKN Salisbury Transmissions plant in Witton, recounts his memories of the day when Birmingham engineering workers struck in solidarity with the miners against the Tory government. ON 10 FEBRUARY 1972 I started out for work. But I would do […]
