02 January 1980

Wednesday

1980-01-02

Events

 * Steel workers stage their first national strike for more than fifty years. The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, the biggest steel union, has 90,000 members among the 150,000 staff employed by British Steel.

TV

 * BBC Two 9.25 pm The Black Stuff (play) by Alan Bleasdale. Liverpool v Middlesbrough - a Merseyside tarmac gang are away on a contract on Teesside - without the boss there's a chance for some local diversion with the natives while keeping up the spirit of free enterprise, preferably on the firm's time. (see also The Boys from the Black Stuff) (full play here)