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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date |
Value |
Title |
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| 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 14 Fr | Major | Civil service: Soames letter to Jenkin(“Industrial action in DHSS: management response”) [strategy & legal position] [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 Mar 18 Mo | Major | Civil service:DHSS letter to Cabinet Office(“‘Sunday Times’ article - 17 March 1985”) [leak of documents on Newcastle DHSS computer strike] [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] |
| 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 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 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] |
| 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 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] |
| 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 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 17 Mo | Major | Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Industrial Relations in the Civil Service”) [Ministerial Committee] [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] |
| 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: Lord Advocate letter to Barney Hayhoe (“Trade Union Act 1984”) [“we have never admitted publicly that there is a contract of employment between the Crown and individual 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 Oct 23 Tu | Major | Civil service: Michael Havers letter to Jenkin (“Management response to industrial action in the NHS”) [options paper] [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 22 Th | Major | NHS: Jenkin letter to Soames (“Handling of industrial disputes in the NHS”) [draft circular and guidance] [declassified 2014] |