 In the second reading debate of the bill, MP Shirley Summerskill spoke of the machinists playing a "very significant part in the history of the struggle for equal pay".Once the UK joined the EEC in 1973, it also became subject to Article 119 of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which specified that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work.A film dramatisation of the 1968 strike, "Made in Dagenham", with a screenplay by William Ivory, was released at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2010.