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1979 Sep 5 - 1985 Oct 14
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 213
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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]
85 Jan 29 Tu Major Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Fowler (“Newcastle shiftworkers dispute”) [lessons to be learnt] [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]
85 Mar 19 Tu Major Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Tom King (“Trade Union Act 1984”) [“there is a contract of employment between the Crown and civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 20 We Major Civil service: Barney Hayhoe minute to MT (“Industrial action in the civil service: use of the Trade Union Act 1984”) [“legal advice is that we have an excellent chance of success”] [declassified 2014]
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]
85 Oct 11 Fr Major Civil service: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Industrial action by CPSA at Companies Registration Office”) [“a firm stand is needed, especially in view of the programme of improvements in efficiency over the next several years”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 8 Tu Minor Civil service: Cabinet Office letter to Fowler PS (“Newcastle Computer Centre Strike”) [correspondence downgraded from secret to confidential] [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]
80 May 21 We Major Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Servants’ Contracts of Employment”) [“possibilities of altering”] [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 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]
85 Feb 4 Mo Major Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Fowler PS (“Newcastle shift workers’ dispute”) [“welcomes Mr. Fowler’s intention to discuss the lessons to be learned”] [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 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 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 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 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 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]
85 Jan 23 We Major Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle shiftworkers dispute”) [“This long dispute has been costly but it has achieved an important result in demonstrating our determination to make change where change is necessary”] [declassified 2014]