Pay controls | IMGpapers 1976

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In return for severe pay controls and actual reductions in working class living standards, the TUC leaders were initially promisco arce asunc ea sauve meas ures, each directly beneficial to union bureaucrauc interests. Ine trade Union & Labour Relations Act removed the discredited Tory anti-union laws; the Employment Protection Act improves selected workers rights and encourages unionisation; and now the Bullock Committee is preparing the final instalment - laws счашь worker parncipanon in industrial management.

1974 Congress Ine Committee is expressiy breted to work on the basis of the TUC's detailed policy statement, 'Industrial Democracy", passed by Congress in 1974 (which emBullock Committee member Clive Jenkins phasises the election of "workers representatives to new company boards "through trade union machinery'). In addition, it has relatively little time: the re-structured companies legislation is due in 1977/78.

What is at stake is a development of