Tuesday 23 Apr 2024, 11:15
Sally Hawkins stars as Rita O'Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions for long arduous hours which they must balance with their domestic lives, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lose their patience when they are reclassified as "unskilled".
With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government itself.