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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 Dec 11 Tu Major Civil service: Fowler PS letter to Whitelaw PS (“Newcastle shiftworkers’ dispute”) [“Ministers… keeping the situation under review”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 17 Fr Major Civil service: Howe minute to MT (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [Union seeking assurances in light of new computerised system requiring less staff ] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 9 Fr Major Civil service: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“FCO communications”) [“Treasury and FCO officials have reached a satisfactory agreement which the CSU have now accepted”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 30 Th Major Civil service: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [negotiations and action postponed] [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 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]
84 Dec 12 We Major Civil service: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (“The Newcastle shift dispute”) [legal position of the government] [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]
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]
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 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]
85 May 21 Tu Major Civil service: Lawson minute to Howe (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [“we should not be seen to be giving way in the face of industrial threats in this particular case”] [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]
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]
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 23 Tu Major Civil service: Michael Havers letter to Jenkin (“Management response to industrial action in the NHS”) [options paper] [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 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]
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]
79 Nov 13 Tu Major Civil service: No.10 note to Stevenson (Scottish devolution referendum) [time off for DHSS staff refused] [declassified 2014]