Tory Employment Minister probably won't have to. industrial relations', he says.
The trade union leaders were.
ist as keen to talk with the Fores when Heath became Prime Minister. But then the Tores weren 1 so keen to talk 10 Joe Gormley would complain that, I've never met John Davies once, and he is the minister in chief of the whole question of the coal industry'.
Heath paid no attention to uch whining until July 1972, JOE GORMLEY can't wait to get round the table with Jim Prior. And he Len Murray has already been for an informal chat, and will be reporting to the General Council of the TUC on 23 May. "Given the right climate, we have always been willing to co-operate with the employers and government to achieve further improvements in when the imprisonment of the Pentonville S nearly led to a Thatcher will learn from that mistake • and try to talk as many concessions out of the on to legal means of curbing the Heath's talks with the unions broke down because he could not give the union leaders cnough concessions to sell to their members. Vic Feather. then TOC general secretary, commented down of talks:
these controls increases) voluntary wasn't right. BUCIUEALA after the breaktried all 1o pared, provided the rest of the were package was right, to agree that (limiting wage ally: should be purely But the rest of the package It's unlikely that Thatcher will be prepared to give wide concessions either. Len Mur*Doctrinaire policies for the relations would be worse than irrelevant. They would impede our efforts to find sensible ways of making practical progress towards these ends.
the SCEY ninimum Thatcher wants eventually to outlaw flying pickets. But in the talks have their laws.
cynically that.
COULECTE public agreement. demonstrating the reasonableness of the government, makes sense politically and practic And ritual could usefully be drawn out to carry the Tories over a nasty winter in the public sector.
Not only does Thatcher gain time through talking - the trade union leaders, having committed themselves to trade will ELVE difficulty explaining why those reforms should be embodied in law What is more, the right-wing LOUD CRUCES BEHOL STEELE ened in the process. Their line will be: if we don't want the Tories introducing laws we had better 'act responsibly" and show that there is no need for