“Our supervisors were saying ‘You can’t do this, you have to stay’ – because women didn’t go on strike then,” she recalled.
The women returned to work for 92% of the male rate, instead of the 85% they were receiving before the strike.
Danielle Flynn, an apprentice from Jaguar Land Rover’s Halewood plant, thanked “these amazing women from the Halewood plant in its Ford era” for paving the way for women “to forge a successful career in a traditionally male-dominated industry”.
“Without the stand taken by women working at Ford’s plants in Dagenham and Halewood in 1968, the Equal Pay Act would not have followed.