laws was unveiled.
government essential services.
Sir Leonard chairs the research group on the Centre Policy Studies - the Tory *think tank' SCL Keith Joseph Margaret Thatcher. This Institute has pre-outlined all previous stages of the anti-union laws. Neal was also chair of the Heath government's Commission on Industrial Relations.
According to extensive 'leaks' reported by Financial Times on February the Neal report Bames the essential services in which the strikes would be made ilegal as clectricity, gas, water supply, sewage and the health service.
Neal's report however is much CHOTe HOUST soing than previously aked plans. rules Oul ay pretence of defending after the right trike has been abolished saying. 'It ought not to be «a • ewa oo oe for not taking immoral actiOs' THE GOVERNMENT has not slipped up in banning the unions at GCHQ. It is the first move in a plan 1o ban the right to strike in major areas of the British economy. This became obvious last week as government thinking for another round of anti-trade union A report by Tory industrial relations adviser Sir Leonard Neal made it clear that the next target for action should be banning strikes in relatively powerless to impede it on the grounds that an upturn in employment will see a reassertion former SOLIC strength and attempts to claw back some lost control'.
The paper editorialises that, ine ume is ripe lor continued eonie Hie dons remain officially wo ue avcue mal te lau the has no place in industrial relations, are in no shape to stop it' Neal report also contains number other proposals for clamping down on tne unions notably making illegal all SIRIKeS Camee dul infringe ae ceLCIs.
Thatcher has promised a major new piece of anti-union legislation every two years.
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