In May 1974, Asian workers at the Imperial Typewriter Company in Leicester went on strike over unequal bonus payments and discrimination in promotion. The shop stewards committee and union branch refused their support, but the strikers, supported by other black workers and the magazine Race Today, stayed on strike for almost 14 weeks. This Transport and General Workers' Union enquiry into the dispute criticised local union officials and instituted changes to ensure that shop stewards and the branch committee were more representative of local membership.

Title	Imperial Typewriters dispute, 1974
Maker	Trades Union Congress
Production Date	1974
Format	Document
Copyright	Unite - the Union
Holding Institution	TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University
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