As Britain gears up for landmark strike action next week, the powerful words of Jayaben Desai, the inspirational leader of the 1976 Grunwick strike, echo down the decades.
“What you are running here is not a factory, it is a zoo. In a zoo, there are many types of animals. Some are monkeys that dance on your fingertips, others are lions who can bite your head off.
“We are the lions, Mr Manager.”
