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PREM19/1662
Civil Service (Industrial relations in the Civil Service: Department of Health and Social Security industrial action)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 213
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79 Sep 5 We Major Civil service: Baroness Chalker letter to Soames(“Industrial action DHSS: management response”) [MT “very unhappy” about Jenkin concession to “industrial blackmail”] [declassified 2014]
79 Sep 12 We Major 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]
79 Sep 12 We Major 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]
79 Sep 12 We Major 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]
79 Sep 12 We Major 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]
79 Sep 14 Fr Major Civil service: Soames letter to Jenkin(“Industrial action in DHSS: management response”) [strategy & legal position] [declassified 2014]
79 Sep 17 Mo Major Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Industrial Relations in the Civil Service”) [Ministerial Committee] [declassified 2014]
79 Oct 1 Mo Major Civil service: Michael Havers minute to Soames (“Industrial action in the civil service”) [advice on lawfulness of proposed response options] [declassified 2014]
79 Oct 2 Tu Major Civil service: Lord Mackay letter to Soames (“Industrial action in the civil service”) [terms and conditions of employment] [declassified 2014]
79 Oct 3 We Major Civil service: Soames minute to MT (“Industrial relations in the civil service”) [legal powers to tackle industrial action] [declassified 2014]
79 Oct 23 Tu Major Civil service: Michael Havers letter to Jenkin (“Management response to industrial action in the NHS”) [options paper] [declassified 2014]
79 Oct 30 Tu Major 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]
79 Nov 2 Fr Major 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]
79 Nov 13 Tu Major Civil service: No.10 note to Stevenson (Scottish devolution referendum) [time off for DHSS staff refused] [declassified 2014]
79 Nov 16 Fr Major 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]
79 Nov 19 Mo Major 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]
79 Nov 21 We Major Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“A Temporary Chairman for E(CS)”) [new committee on industrial relations] [declassified 2014]
79 Nov 22 Th Major NHS: Jenkin letter to Soames (“Handling of industrial disputes in the NHS”) [draft circular and guidance] [declassified 2014]
79 Nov 28 We Major NHS: Michael Havers letter to Jenkin (“Handling of industrial disputes in the NHS”) [draft circular and guidance] [declassified 2014]
79 Nov 29 Th Major 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]