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19th June 1978: Mike Baldwin provoked a strike at his factory for the most unusual of reasons when he sacked Hilda Ogden after she asked for a new sweeping brush. In the foulest of moods and suspecting Hilda of cutting the brushes off the old one he summarily dismissed her. Even though Hilda was not in the union, Ivy Tilsley pushed for the rest of the factory staff to come out on strike in support of her. The vote wasn’t unanimous as Hilda wasn’t the most popular of colleagues but a majority supported the action. Mike refused to back down and the girls walked out as the bitterest of disputes that he had ever faced as a factory owner began…
 * For more information see Episode 1818 (19th June 1978).