Titlebook: Contemporary British Industrial Relations; Sid Kessler,Fred Bayliss Textbook 1998Latest edition Sid Kessler and Fred Bayliss 1998 assessme

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The 1970s,Conservative Government under Edward Heath. The Conservative Party had moved somewhat to the right while in opposition and its programme envisaged much greater emphasis on free market forces, the abolition of the prices and incomes policy and a strong new industrial relations law. After a tumultuous

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The economic background,ord very briefly the main changes in the leading economic indicators insofar as they are relevant to industrial relations. The Conservative Government that came to power in 1979 was wedded to a firm belief in monetarism and a free market economy. Mrs Thatcher held to these beliefs as articles of fai

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Government as employer and quasi-employer,es in the NHS. With the removal of negotiating rights of school teachers by the Remuneration of Teachers Act 1987, it is also directly responsible for the pay of nearly 500 000 teachers. In addition, the government has an indirect, but powerful, influence on the pay of some 2 million other local aut

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Strikes,the Conservative Party, too ready to use strikes to get their way: ‘strikes are too often a weapon of first rather than last resort’ (Conservative Party Manifesto, 1979). In the Party’s demonology stood the miners’ strike of 1974 which had challenged, and some would say brought down, a Conservative

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