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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
Themes: Executive, Judiciary, Parliament, Union of UK nations, Employment, Pay, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, Social security & welfare

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Date Value Title
79 Dec 6 Th Major 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]
80 May 21 We Major Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Servants’ Contracts of Employment”) [“possibilities of altering”] [declassified 2014]
80 Dec 8 Mo Major 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]
81 Aug 16 Su Major 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]
84 Jun 15 Fr Major Civil service: Fowler letter to Lawson (“Industrial action - Newcastle central office”) [management countermeasures as strike enters sixth week] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 18 Mo Major Civil service: Lawson letter to Fowler (“Dispute at DHSS Newcastle”) [advises careful handling given wider context of pay negotiations] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fr Major Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle computer centre strike”) [Union prepared to accept Government deal in guise of ACAS ‘conciliation’ proposal] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 22 We Major 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]
84 Aug 28 Tu Major 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]
84 Aug 28 Tu Major 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]
84 Sep 3 Mo Major 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]
84 Sep 11 Tu Major 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]
84 Nov 9 Fr Major 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]
84 Nov 15 Th Major Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Fowler (“DHSS Newcastle: shift-working dispute”) [“matters should now be brought to a head”] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fr Major 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]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Civil service: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Newcastle DHSS industrial dispute) [Whitelaw, Fowler, King, Hayhoe] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tu Major Civil service: David Willetts minute to No.10 (“Newcastle shift dispute”) [risk of legal challenge to unilateral variation of contract] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tu Major Civil service: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Newcastle DHSS industrial dispute) [Whitelaw, Fowler, King, Mayhew, Hayhoe] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu Major Civil service: Fowler PS letter to Whitelaw PS (“Newcastle shiftworkers’ dispute”) [“Ministers… keeping the situation under review”] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 12 We Major Civil service: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (“The Newcastle shift dispute”) [legal position of the government] [declassified 2014]