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1983 Mar 4 - 1984 Apr 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1281
Industrial policy (Industrial relations law) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 274
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Date Value Title
83 May 16 Mo Major Trade Unions: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (“Employee Involvement”) [Tebbit’s voluntarist proposals insufficient] [declassified 2014]
83 May 31 Tu Major Trade Unions: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“Employee Involvement”) [defends voluntarist approach] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 22 We Major Trade Unions: Department of Employment Press Office release (“Trade Union Reform”) [non-attributable background] declassified 2014]
83 Jun 27 Mo Major Trade Unions: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (“Employee Involvement”) [suggests code of good practice with statutory backing] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 6 We Major Trade Unions: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Trade Union Bill") [draft statement on legislation; political levy] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 12 Tu Major Trade Unions: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“Proposals for legislation on Trade Union democracy”) [statement and paper] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 13 We Major Trade Unions: Howe minute to MT (“Employee involvement”) [supports Heseltine’s proposals; suggests informal meeting] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 15 Fr Major Trade Unions: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“Employee involvement”) [rejects Heseltine’s suggestion] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 18 Mo Major Trade Unions: Lawson letter to Tebbit (“Employee involvement”) [supports Heseltine’s & Howe’s view that legislation should be an option] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 20 We Major Trade Unions: Cockfield letter to Tebbit (“Employee involvement”) [supports voluntary approach; highlights dangers of acting] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 26 Tu Major Trade Unions: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (“Employee Involvement”) [supports Howe’s suggestion of informal discussion] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 3 We Major Trade Unions: Gowrie letter to Havers (“EC’s acquired rights directive”) [comments on new interpretation of directive] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 5 Fr Major Trade Unions: Tebbit letter to Parkinson (“Draft EC directives on employee participation”) [thinks best to consult on both directives together] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 24 We Major Trade Unions: Rifkind letter to Tebbit (“EC Directives”) [need to consult] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 26 Fr Major Trade Unions: Havers letter to Rees (“EC’s Acquired Rights Directive”) [questions raised] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 2 Fr Major Trade Unions: Tebbit letter to Younger (“Nigg disturbances”) [fears police inaction over pickets will lead to comparisons with 1970s] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 5 Mo Major Trade Unions: Tebbit letter to Rifkind (“Draft EC Directives on employee participation”) [must maintain government’s principled opposition] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 13 Tu Major Trade Unions: Younger letter to Tebbit (“Highland Fabricators”) [report conclusions - “satisfied that there is no question of pickets at the site having flouted the law”] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major Trade Unions: Tebbit minute to MT ("Strikes in Essential Services") [suggests imposing minimum statutory procedural arrangements whose breach would lead to loss of immunity] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 28 Fr Major Trade Unions: No.10 briefing for MT (“Political expenditure by companies and Trade Unions”) [declassified 2014]