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PDF 79 Sep 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Baroness Chalker letter to Soames(“Industrial action DHSS: management response”) [MT “very unhappy” about Jenkin concession to “industrial blackmail”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jenkin minute to MT(overtime ban by trade unions at DHSS Newcastle) [“we must be sure we can win the ensuing public relations battle”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Soames (“Industrial action DHSS: management response”) [“we cannot go on being held to ransom in this way”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Soames, Keith Joseph, Prior, Nott) [Ministerial sub-commitee on industrial relations in Civil Service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: P. Mountfield minute to Cabinet Secretary (“Industrial action in the civil service”) [powers to send staff home where there is no work as a result of industrial action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Soames letter to Jenkin(“Industrial action in DHSS: management response”) [strategy & legal position] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Industrial Relations in the Civil Service”) [Ministerial Committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Michael Havers minute to Soames (“Industrial action in the civil service”) [advice on lawfulness of proposed response options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Mackay letter to Soames (“Industrial action in the civil service”) [terms and conditions of employment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Soames minute to MT (“Industrial relations in the civil service”) [legal powers to tackle industrial action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Michael Havers letter to Jenkin (“Management response to industrial action in the NHS”) [options paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jenkin letter to Soames (“E(CS) Ministerial Sub-Commitee on Industrial Relations on Civil Service: industrial action at the Liverpool (Breckfield) local office”) [doubts “over the ability to require Clerical Officers to undertake the work of a lower grade”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Michael Havers letter to Soames (“Industrial action in the civil service and the National Health Service - Apportionment Act 1870”) [“the Act does apply to salaries of NHS employees”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 note to Stevenson (Scottish devolution referendum) [time off for DHSS staff refused] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lawson letter to Soames (“National Savings Bank Glasgow”) [“risk [of standstill]… had to be faced… if local militants were not to be allowed to have things their own way”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jenkin letter to Soames (“Industrial action in the civil service”) [“in furtherance of the Unions’ campaign against the Government’s plans to reduce Civil Service manpower”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“A Temporary Chairman for E(CS)”) [new committee on industrial relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Jenkin letter to Soames (“Handling of industrial disputes in the NHS”) [draft circular and guidance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Michael Havers letter to Jenkin (“Handling of industrial disputes in the NHS”) [draft circular and guidance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lawson letter to Soames (“National Savings Bank Glasgow”) [strong management resistance to militant industrial action in advance of civil service manpower reductions announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Soames letter to Lawson (industrial action at National Savings Bank, Glasgow) [strong management resistance to militant industrial action in advance of civil service manpower reductions announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Servants’ Contracts of Employment”) [“possibilities of altering”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Soames minute to MT (“Civil service protest meetings”) [“The extent of support for the meetings was higher than we could have expected for this type of demonstration”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Ministry of Defence Staff Association Secretary letter to MT (“Industrial relations in the Ministry of Defence: formation of the MoD Staff Association”) [“there is deep resentment at the way both the Government and the Unions have handled the recent pay dispute”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler letter to Lawson (“Industrial action - Newcastle central office”) [management countermeasures as strike enters sixth week] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lawson letter to Fowler (“Dispute at DHSS Newcastle”) [advises careful handling given wider context of pay negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle computer centre strike”) [Union prepared to accept Government deal in guise of ACAS ‘conciliation’ proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rhodes Boyson letter to Lawson (“The DHSS Newcastle shiftworking dispute”) [strike in 15th week; plan to recruit new staff if latest offer rejected] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Fowler PS (“The DHSS Newcastle shift-working dispute”) [plan to recruit new staff if latest offer rejected] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Rhodes Boyson (“DHSS Newcastle shiftworking dispute”) [“recruiting casual staff may well… give the militants a chance to extend disruptive action”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: David Willetts minute to No.10 (“The computer strike at DHSS Newcastle”) [“it is now entering a crucial phase when it will either crumble or escalate”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: David Willets minute to No.10(“The computer strike at DHSS Newcastle”) [“when the strikers discover that they are not able to stop DHSS doing the uprating, they will realise they are in for a long struggle”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle shift dispute”) [“we have now undoubtedly reached the ‘bottom line’ and no further concessions can be made”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Fowler (“DHSS Newcastle: shift-working dispute”) [“matters should now be brought to a head”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Patrick Mayhew minute to MT (“The Newcastle shift dispute”) [risk of legal challenge to unilateral variation of employees terms and conditions of service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Newcastle DHSS industrial dispute) [Whitelaw, Fowler, King, Hayhoe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: David Willetts minute to No.10 (“Newcastle shift dispute”) [risk of legal challenge to unilateral variation of contract] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Newcastle DHSS industrial dispute) [Whitelaw, Fowler, King, Mayhew, Hayhoe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler PS letter to Whitelaw PS (“Newcastle shiftworkers’ dispute”) [“Ministers… keeping the situation under review”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (“The Newcastle shift dispute”) [legal position of the government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office letter to Fowler PS (“Newcastle Computer Centre Strike”) [correspondence downgraded from secret to confidential] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle shiftworkers dispute”) [“This long dispute has been costly but it has achieved an important result in demonstrating our determination to make change where change is necessary”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Fowler (“Newcastle shiftworkers dispute”) [lessons to be learnt] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Fowler PS (“Newcastle shift workers’ dispute”) [“welcomes Mr. Fowler’s intention to discuss the lessons to be learned”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service:DHSS letter to Cabinet Office(“‘Sunday Times’ article - 17 March 1985”) [leak of documents on Newcastle DHSS computer strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Tom King (“Trade Union Act 1984”) [“there is a contract of employment between the Crown and civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Advocate letter to Barney Hayhoe (“Trade Union Act 1984”) [“we have never admitted publicly that there is a contract of employment between the Crown and individual civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe minute to MT (“Industrial action in the civil service: use of the Trade Union Act 1984”) [“legal advice is that we have an excellent chance of success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Howe minute to MT (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [Union seeking assurances in light of new computerised system requiring less staff ] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lawson minute to Howe (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [“we should not be seen to be giving way in the face of industrial threats in this particular case”] [declassified 2014]

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