The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick. Air Date : 1st-May-1974

In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating. Air Date : 4th-Sep-1973  Read More

The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick. Air Date : 1st-May-1974  Read More

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. Air Date : 8th-May-1974  Read More

Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse. Air Date : 15th-May-1974  Read More

That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest. Air Date : 22nd-May-1974  Read More

Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan. Air Date : 29th-May-1974  Read More

The bone of contention between the management and workers of Cockers, is the unacceptable noise level on the factory floor, which has led to a ban on overtime. Air Date : 4th-Jun-1974  Read More

Cockers’ Managing Director, Dicky Bligh, (Henry McGee) with yet another problem on his hands. For the first time in the company’s history, no-one has any grievances. A photographer is sent to take pictures of the happiest firm in the group for the company magazine. But it seems that no-one, wants to be associated with ‘contented Cockers.’ Air Date : 5th-Jun-1974  Read More