REGISTRATION REBELS LET OFF THE HOOK
By David Maude
1972David MaudeIndustrial Relations Act Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
NO EFFECTIVE action was taken b chiefs yesterday against the leaders of m co-operate with the Industrial Relations An afternoon meeting of the TUC Finance and General Purposes Committee reviewed its recent discussions with 25 affiliated organizations who have allowed their names to go on the Act's new Register of Trade Unions.
Biggest of the 25 are the National Union of Seamen and the National Union of Bank Employees, both of whom intend using the Act to defend bargaining rights.
Moves by other unions whose position was not even raised yesterday are almost equally questionable.
The shopworkers' union USDAW and the General and Municipal Workers' Union have signed a new procedure agreement covering 1,750 stafi workers at Littlewood's MailOrder Stores which is drafted entirely in line with the Industrial Relations Act.
It sets up a joint negotiatin the sole bargaining agent for the staff. this. particular Use phrase suggests that the two unions intend to become fully egistered and possibly appl it a later date for legal back ing for their position with the company.
Yet USDAW chief Alf Allen and the G&MWU's Lord Cooper sit on the TUC 'inner cabinet'-alongside the seamen's Bill Hogarth—without any question.
And what of the General • PAGE FOUR TUC ives to Ict.