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56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. READ MORE:COP26: Glasgow cleansing workers vote for strike action during summit. Around 350 workers went on unofficial strike in January of 1975 which led to a build-up of rubbish in backcourts, alleys and common closes. Bin men strike 1979 1970s UK HOMER SYKES RF M725WA - 1974 Mk1 Ford Escort classic British family saloon car RM A1TBRP - Train strike 1970s UK Paddington main line railways station May 14th 1972 The first ever national strike. Inflation had reached a height of nearly 26.9% in August 1975. Pedestrian rushed to hospital in 'serious condition' after being hit by Volkswagen Tiguan. A Gannett Company. Today in NYC History: The Great Garbage Strike of 1968 For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Mounds of rubbish bags are piled high in London's iconic Leicester Square in 1979 as dustmen strike for increased pay, Hundreds of workers at the Ford factory in London walk out in 1978 over pay disputes. Download content on demand when you need it. The weeks during and after the lorry drivers strike were marked largely by strike action being taken by public sector workers, determined to keep up with the wage increases of their counterparts in the private sector. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to Every day a new challenge. 12th March 1975. The interior of this property is every bit as stunning as its canary yellow outside. The stench of the overflowing bins was awful and I was warned by my mother to avoid playing anywhere near the rubbish. According to the Daily News, the garbage strike may have been the last straw for a public that already put up with taxi, tugboat, public school, transit and even grave-digger strikes. Selective and partial strike action reduced half of Britains hospitals to an Emergency Only service by the end of January 1979. The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was an eight-day strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. The army were put on standby to take over from tanker drivers who eventually settled on a 15 per cent rise. Strike activity measured in working days lost was higher in the UK in the 1970s than in any other decade in the period after the Second World War (Office for National Statistics, ONS. In Early February, 1700 workers at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, including cooks, cleaners and boiler stokers, walked out when a handful of porters were suspended. An old man in our neighbourhood used to so slowly pace his green front garden after dark with a hosepipe down his trousers so no one could see it. Politicians are still launching arguments, particularly about the role of trade unionism and socialism in British history, based around a folk memory of the period.