Which 2010 film is about a 1968 dispute when women machinists went on strike for equal pay?
Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 Union in 1973, it also became subject to Article 119 of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which specified that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work. A film dramatisation of the 1968 strike, "Made in Dagenham" (screenplay by William Ivory), was released by Sony Pictures in 2010. A musical adaptation of the film premièred in London in 2014. In January 2015 it was announced that the musical would close in April 2015. Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 was a landmark labour-relations dispute in the United Kingdom. It was a
Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 was a landmark labour-relations dispute in the United Kingdom. It was a trigger cause of the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970. The strike, led by Rose Boland, Eileen Pullen, Vera Sime, Gwen Davis, and Sheila Douglass, began on 7 June 1968, when women sewing machinists at Ford Motor Company Limited's Dagenham plant in London walked out, followed later by the machinists at Ford's Halewood Body & Assembly plant. The women made car seat covers and as stock ran out the strike eventually resulted in a