Industrial Relations Act
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• Commercial Motor will be one of the sponsors of an important high-level conference on the new Industrial Relations Act (likely to go on the Statute Book early this year) which is being introduced by the new Government. Nationally prominent men (among them Lord Peddie) will be chairing or participating in the sessions, and there will be a whole section devoted to transport.
To be held at the Cafe Royal, Regent Street. London on March 30, the conference will open with an introduction by a leading political figure, and there will then be an explanation by a leading lawyer of the Act itself.
Following this the conference will split into three, so that specialists may discuss the legislation's effect on the transport, engineering and construction fields. In each, a personnel .expert, an employer and a • prominent trade unionist will tell of reactions and plans in their own fields.
In the transport section, the general secretary of the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union, Mr Alex Kitson, will be involved with Mr Ronald Butt, chairman of the RHA labour relations committee (the employers' Wages Council panel) and Mr Christopher Dixon, RHA industrial relations officer.
Details of the conference, the speakers and the fees will be published in CM in the near future. Meanwhile, operators interested in having an immediate and expert assessment of this significant new Act are advised to keep March 30 free for this conference.