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1981 Mar 2 - 1981 Apr 15
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/400
Civil service (Pay and pensions: public sector pay policy; Civil Service pay dispute; industrial action) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 211
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81 Mar 2 Mon Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Industrial Action") [Civil Service strike imminent] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 3 Tue Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soames) ["Civil Service Industrial Action"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 4 Wed Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay") ["The unions are evidently committed to industrial action"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 6 Fri Civil Service: Armstrong minute to Bancroft (Armstrong meets with Jack Hibbert, potential Civil Service striker) ["[it is] clear that it is not the amount of the current offer but the suspension of the pay agreement...that has roused strongest resentment"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 10 Tue Civil Service: Walters minute to Vereker (Civil Service "quit rate") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 11 Wed Civil Service: Vereker minute to Walters ("Civil Service Pay") [Civil Service "quit rate"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 12 Thu Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("The Civil Service Pay Dispute") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 13 Fri Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action") [summary report on Civil Service strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 13 Fri Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Soames-Hayhoe-Armstrong-Smith) ["Civil Service Pay"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 13 Fri Civil Service: Vereker minute to Lankester ("Civil Service Pay") [advocates "wait and see" policy with regard to Civil Service pay and industrial action] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 16 Mon Civil Service: Havers minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay") ["I am troubled by the statement...that those not now on strike will "have to be sent home without pay" when they reach the stage of having no useful work to do as a result of industrial action by others"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 16 Mon Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay") [changing law so as to allow lay-offs without pay of staff whose work has dried up due to strike action by others] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 19 Thu Civil Service: Vereker minute to Whitmore ("Civil Service Pay: Progress of MISC 54") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 20 Fri Civil Service: Lord Shepherd minute to MT (Shepherd prepared to continue at Chariman of the Civil Service Pay Research Unit Board) [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 25 Wed Civil Service: Lankester minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay Dispute") [MT: "Real damage would be to concede inflationary pay settlement"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 27 Fri Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action") [progress report on Civil Service industrial action] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 27 Fri Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay") [report on possible resolution of Civil Service pay dispute] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 30 Mon Civil Service: HMT letter to No.10 (Brittan answer to Private Notice question on effects of Civil Service industrial action) [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 31 Tue Civil Service: Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service industrial dispute: possible formula") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 1 Wed Civil Service: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Civil Service Industrial Action: Possible Formula") [declassified 2011]