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• Predictions Arguments over the Industrial Relations Bill will continue

15th January 1971
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

to reverberate until—and perhaps—beyond—its passing into law. NALGO, a party to setting up national negotiating machinery for the staffs of PTEs, hazards some intriguing guesses about future developments in the current issue of Public Service.

A contributor compiling his 1971 almanac suggests that NALGO may get on the right side of the Industrial Relations Act by becoming a limited company. All members would be offered preference shares in exchange for union cards. Annual contracts would be signed with employers for the supply of clerical and administrative labour—at agency rates. Other predictions: April—Postmen to read electricity and gas meters while

This is the cover (green and black in the original) of a very professional brochure which is being used by the Industrial Transport Association in a campaign launched this week. Under the theme "Transport—the vital link" it is an intensive recruiting and training campaign stressing the part that well-trained transport executives can play in industry. The brochure opens out to form a 16in. x 12in. poster on tough paper. It's a campaign that gets my good wishes and support—not least for the unusually professional publicity material, which gives transport a real sense of status.

milkmen deliver the mail. May— Nationalized industry chairmen form a trade union. September—Official strikes in electricity, gas, coal, steel, rail and road transport following breakdown of pay talks. October—Six months pay freeze; Enoch Powell enters a monastry.

Such diversions addto the gaiety of nations. To sober everyone up, now that a militant shop steward has allegedly been "bought out" for £3,000, who would care to estimate the Danegeld to secure the effective retirement of one or two full-time trade union officers in—you know where?


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