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Allyson Daykin of KP Foods in Rotherham was elected to the TGWU women’s regional and national committees from the mid-1980s through to the second half of the 1990s. In this podcast she describes how she won support for a union inquiry on the impact of repetitive workplace practices on women workers. When it was discovered that women were being injured it then proved possible to push some employers into adopting safer workplace procedures.