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As part of my research to my Flower of Scotland tl, I found the example of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1971, when the company was refused a loan by the government, which would have driven them out of business, instead of declaring a strike, the union organised a 'work-in', whereby the workers stayed on site and carried on working. As a result, they gained public sympathy and the government was forced into a U-turn.

Now....

WI: When the Thatcher government announced the closure of 20 pits in 1984, instead of going on strike across the board, the NUM arranged it so that these particular 20 pits carried on mining whilst the other pits went on strike.

How would this affect the miners strike? My hunch is that this would force a back-down from the government...
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