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the strike nationally.

So far there were no reports of industrial difficulties caused by the strike. Some 1500 dock workers had taken voluntary redundancy under the compensation scheme, which appeared to be working well. On the whole the port employers had been successful in putting across the case for abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme and they continued to tand ready to negotiate new terms of employment on a local

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Industrial Action in the Local

Government Sector

Previous Reference CC(89) 24.2

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT said that the situation caused by strike action by members of the National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO) was less damaging than might have been expected. Strike action in the Midlands and the South

was less than it had been the previous week. No major proes bad been reported with essential services and, contrary to of NALGO me proportion was

by NALGO, it appeared that only about half were taking strike action and that this

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Industrial Action

in the Transport

Sector

Previous

Reference:

CC(89) 24.2

THE SECRETARY OF STATE management had met all for talks in their di machinery under the auspice Arbitration Service (ACAS).

RANSPORT said that British Rail (BR)

ailway unions on the previous day about pay and pay negotiating the Advisory Conciliation and Go progress had been made in the talks about pay bargaining nechiery, and it had been agreed that further talks on that is

on that is wuld take place that day. However, subsequent discussions within the Railway Staff National Council had broken down.tish Rail management had offered all three rail unions an crease of 8.8 per cent on the increase recommended by e Railway Staff National Tribunal (RSNT) in relation to members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) only. This increase would only be payable, however, from the date when members of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) and Amalgamated cie of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASIEF) ceased their resent industrial action. The offer was also subject to the

also subject to the duction of cashless pay and the scaling down of pay supplepes for staff in the South East previously offered by BR. The

od ASLEF representatives had walked out of the talks on hear these

conditions. BR had subsequently offered TSSA representatives payment of the 8.8 per cent pay increase from 10 recognition of the fact that TSSA members had not so industrial action. But their offer was otherwise subj similar conditions on cashless pay and the scaling dow South East supplements.

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