UDM lapel badge. 

UDM formation ballot result

The UDM formation ballot is the Nottinghamshire coalfield resulted in a three to one majority to form the new union. 17,750 (72% of the vaild vote) voted in favour with 6,792 (28% of the valid vote) being against in a 90% turn out. 

Minutes of Executive Committee meeting, Union of Mineworkers – Nottingham Area, 23rd October 1985. Source – UDM Nottingham Section Minutes 1985, p361-362

UDM formation ballot result, Branches of the Union of Mineworkers – Nottingham Area. Source: David Amos collection. 

Deeper into the Pit, Daily Mirror, 21st October 1985. 

Loser Arthur in pit crisis, Daily Mirror, 21st October 1985. 

Cartoon, World of Keith Waite, Daily Mirror, 21st October 1985. 

Cartoon, Labour Weekly, 25th October 1985.  

We will be the new NUM, Mansfield and Sutton Observer, 24th October 1985.  

United they Stand, Notts Free Press, 26th October 1985, p.1.