Trades Union Congress1975
Accepts the government's pay proposals by a narrow majority.
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Accepts the government's pay proposals by a narrow majority.
Helps secure TUC acceptance of the government's voluntary pay limit.
Accepts a second phase limiting pay rises to modest weekly amounts.
Represents transport workers as union leaders judge whether pay restraint can hold.
Represents engineering workers during debates over the limits of pay restraint.
Warns that union leaders may struggle to restrain members' pay demands.
Negotiates with ministers over the third phase of incomes policy.
Warns that the five percent limit is politically dangerous and unrealistic.
Leads transport workers as pay restraint collapses into wider industrial conflict.
Warns ministers that a rigid five percent limit will be difficult to enforce.
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