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.
CreatorLance Percival
Up the Workers
Sep 4, 1973
In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.
Grapevine
May 1, 1974
The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.
The Bullet Maker
May 8, 1974
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.
Florence Nightingale
May 15, 1974
Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.
Tea Break
May 22, 1974
That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.
Made in Japan
May 29, 1974
Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan.
The Big Noise
Jun 4, 1974
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.
Calm Before the Storm
Jun 5, 1974
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.’
