AT the start of this year twelve trade union leaders pur their names to a document called "The Better Way'.
Thid be accepted policy should be accepted permanent feature of industrial relations, and that it should be policed by a new Prices and Incomes Board and the TUC Some of these leaders were:
FRANK CHAPPLE, Elec. trical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union. He accused the public sector workers last winter of practising "terrorism' not trade unionism.
He attacked the strike at Leyland's Longbridge plant because 'there was no strike ballot, It is high time the TUC said they were going to make things work.' TOM JACKSON, Union of Post Office Workers and TUC Chairperson. "The one thing certain to breed extremists within the union is extremists in government", was his response.
He has warned that laws dealing with 'untypical' union actions could distract attention from maintaining industrial finding solutions to difficult problems".
one member of the General Council opposed the Concordat, introduced to try to patch up relations with the abour government after the TUC in September 1978 had kicked out the incomes policy. The Concordat's main architects were:
DAVID BASNETT, General nd Municipal Workers Union He said of the Concordat: The fact that such could be made in a period of what be calls WHAT THE CONCORDAT their SAID:
Picketing *which is confined to premises of the peace, parties to the dispute.
*Union provide for strike hallots. • The closed shop need not be a rigid arrangement. • Strike action should only be taken as a lass resort, WHAT THE TORT NIFF STO SAID:
*to those in dispute picketing ar their own place of work" • Wider use of secret ballors for decision-making throughout the trade union movement an agreement should should should COLL adequately tion."
• Picketing should be limited TESUES Оле and their families. air share of the supporting every membership's "The left won The ballot-rigeing.
senior Glasgow North Individual votin against civil general won.
We were only The defented withdrawal 444 against. the MICHELIE • Because of the closed shop. of which people arbitrarily excluded oi expelled from any union must be given the right of appeal to a Existing employees and tbose with Dersonal conviction mist they lose their job as a result of shall the closed shop they must be CELERATE MUEL BALL COIROLI MOSS • 'Strikes are far too often a weapon of first rather tian last calise the financial treatment of strikers we shall ensure that anions bear thei Cost of picketing LOLIE members who are on strike.
views on the TUC General Cooncil and not the anion executive elections overwhelindustrial disagreements, many resolved, shows how a Labour government and trade unson movement can and must work together. No such agreement could have been made with s Tory goverriment.' We still doubt whether we see David Busnett opposing talks with the Tories EVANS, Transport and General Workers Union. He showed his support for tbe Concordat during the lorry: drivers" strike when he put out a guide to picketing which made it cicar there was to be of firms DOE immediately involved in the their He bas not commented on Socialist Challenge whether there should be lalks with the Tories!
Of the letts" on the TUC General Council, who oppose the talks?
RAY BUCKTON, Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, has WEETEL Thaicher that she 'faces trouble" if she goes ahead with her declared plans on the unions.
"The Concordat will now be over — we made it clear it was with a Labour government. 1! would be absolutely impossible to reach one with the Tories. 1 believe leopards don't change spots.
Will he oppose the talks?