Up The Workers
This comedy series lets you in on the secrets of industrial relations and management-workers consultations. Or at least how they happen at the Midlands factory of Cockers Components Ltd. They mainly center on the dealings between managing director Dicky Bligh, shop steward Sid Stubbins and labor relations officer Bernard Peck.
- Created By
Lance Percival
- First Aired on
Sep 04, 1973
- Popularity: 4.6002
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- Production
Associated Television (ATV) (GB)
- Status: In Production
In Production
2 seaons till Apr 14, 1976
Last episode: How to Succeed in Business
Seasons & episodes
Total 2 seasons, 14 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Up the Workers30 min
In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.
Episode 2Grapevine30 min
The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.
Episode 3The Bullet Maker30 min
Managing Director Dicky Bligh (Henry McGee) is going fishing, Bernard Peck (Lance Percival) is to attend his mother’s wedding (her second, he hastens to add), Sid Stubbins (Norman Bird) is off to London for a conference of his union's national executive and Bert Hamflitt (Dudley Sutton) is showing his prize marrow at the local women’s institute. That is until a ‘bullet maker’ in the guise of Fred Brewer (Derek Newark) puts a spanner in the works. He gives shop steward Sid Stubbins, his bullets to fire in the form of endless union demands, which must be thrashed out over the weekend.
Episode 4Florence Nightingale30 min
Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.
Episode 5Tea Break30 min
That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.
