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1979 Oct 1 - 1980 Feb 1
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/261
Industrial policy (Industrial relations law) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 221
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79 Oct 12 Fri Trade Unions: Prior minute to MT (Leggatt report) [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 17 Wed Trade Unions: Hunt briefing to MT (Employment Bill at Cabinet) [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 19 Fri Trade Unions: Prior minute to MT (further action on Leggatt report) [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 9 Fri Trade Unions: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (Sch.11 of Employment Protection Act) [BBC parity claim] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 9 Fri Trade Unions: Attorney-General minute to MT (picketing law) ["little comfort"] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 21 Wed Trade Unions: Armstrong briefing to MT (Prior paper at Cabinet) [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 23 Fri Trade Unions: Lankester minute to MT (points to raise visiting Dept of Employment) [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mon Trade Unions: Lankester letter to Prior's PS (responding to Lords' ruling on MacShane) [PM favours broader statement] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 14 Fri Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Methven meeting) [business climate; public spending; pay; Employment Bill] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 11 Fri Trade Unions: Hoskyns minute to MT (Prior paper on immunities) [case for doing more] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 11 Fri Trade Unions: Nott letter to Prior (your paper on immunities) [case for doing more] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 11 Fri Trade Unions: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Trade Union Immunities") [withdraw for all secondary action & from unions as well as individuals] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 14 Mon Trade Unions: Cabinet Office briefing to MT ("Trade Union Immunities") [Prior paper at E] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 14 Mon Trade Unions: Prior minute to MT (immunities & picketing) [impact of proposals on steel dispute] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 29 Tue Trade Unions: Hoskyns letter to Howe (conversation with Brittan & Joseph) [case for radical measures - "Havoc '80"] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 30 Wed Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prior) [Prior reports deteriorating relationship with unions] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 31 Thu Trade Unions: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Prior (abolition of Fair Wages Resolution) [sceptical this cannot be done before 1983] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 1 Fri Trade Unions: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft minute to MT ("Industrial Relations Legislation") [stimulating Prior to adopt "more radical alternatives"] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 1 Fri Trade Unions: Prior minute to MT (draft working paper) [opposes withdrawing immunity from unions] [declassified 2010]