Made in Dagenham Page #4

- You've always been fair.

Exactly. Ah,

we're all men of the world.

Let's cut to the chase, shall we?

We'll reconvene in two weeks' time.

Monty.

Listen.

We'll reconvene, we'll come back

down here again for the day

and then at that point

you can guarantee

to look into the girls' complaint.

The thing is, Monty...

That way

you can go back to your bosses

and say that the strike's off

because of how you've

handled today's negotiations.

We can go back to the girls and say

they're now your number-one priority

in a few weeks' time.

That seems very fair.

I'm not so sure

the girls'll be too happy.

The girls

will be fine.

As long as they know they're not

being fobbed off by the management.

The union's setting the terms.

That's what's important.

Bollocks.

What?

I'm sorry, Albert, but it is.

Three hours we've been sat here.

"That's what matters to the girls"?

How you qualify to talk

about that, I do not know.

Here. Have a look at this.

There.

You put them together.

Go on.

It's Ford property, I believe.

Oh, stop it.

We have to take these different pieces

and work out how they go together.

Because there ain't no template,

is there?

We have to take them and sew them

all freehand into the finished article.

The same with the door trim

and God knows what else.

That is not unskilled work,

which is how you've regarded us.

Christ, you need to take

an exam to get on our line.

Please, miss, I...

No, it's Mrs. O'Grady.

Mrs. O'Grady,

I understand your grievance...

Well, I really don't think you do.

It's not difficult, though.

We're entitled to semi-skilled

and the wages what go with it.

Bring this to the meeting...

Hang on.

And as regards to this

queue-jumping business, well,

we put this complaint in

months ago, didn't we?

It's just

you've done nothing about it.

And we all know why.

That's because women have never

been on strike before, isn't it?

You just thought you could forget it

and we'd all go away. Well, I'm sorry,

but it isn't gonna be that easy

because we're not going anywhere.

We're gonna do

what we said we would.

No more overtime and

an immediate 24-hour stoppage.

And where it goes from there,

well, it's up to you.

If you'll excuse me, I've really

got to be going. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Thank you.

You think I like looking stupid?

I didn't know what she was gonna do.

You didn't know they were

in her handbag, pull them out?

Look at his face.

Oh, don't worry, you were great.

Thank you very much,

Albert. Thank you very much.

I knew, I knew.

It's up here, you see.

I wanted clever, Rita,

that's why I picked you.

Oh, stop it.

When you pulled out these cuttings,

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