45 years after their dispute with Ford which led to the Equal Pay Act,strikers remember the making of modern industrial historyFor Vera Sime, a former sewing machinist at Ford's Dagenham plant in the 1960s, and one of the epochal days in modern industrial history started like any other. "It was like a normal work day in that I got the children alert and gave them to my sister. Then we all met at the factory and got on the coach."Along with scores of female colleagues infuriated by a pay structure that blatantly favoured male workers,Vera travelled to the streets of Whitehall on 28 June 1968 where employees brandished a eminent banner. It read: "We want sex".
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Source: theguardian.com