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Strikes

In: Contemporary British Industrial Relations

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  • Sid Kessler
  • Fred Bayliss

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The litmus test of the Conservative government’s objective of curbing the power of trade unions was strikes. Over-powerful unions were, in the eyes of the Conservative Party, too ready to use strikes to get their way — ‘strikes are too often a weapon of first rather than last resort’ (Conservative Party manifesto, 1979). In the Party’s demonology stood the miners’ strike of 1974 which had challenged, and some would say brought down, a Conservative government. Moreover, the general election of 1979 which the Party had won with a majority over all other parties in the House of Commons had taken place in the shadow of the ‘Winter of Discontent’ and extensive strikes among public-service workers. Strikes had become for the Conservative Party the symbol of the abuse of their power by trade unions.

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  • Sid Kessler & Fred Bayliss, 1992. "Strikes," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Contemporary British Industrial Relations, chapter 0, pages 207-234, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22027-4_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22027-4_12
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