ACTORS F Trades
Union Congress (T.U.C.) - 1868
F Confederation of British
Industry (C.B.I.) - 1965
F The Labour Party - 1899 (1945-1951; 1964-1970;
1974-1979; 1997-)
F The Conservative Party (1951-1964; 1970-1974;
1979-1997)
GENERAL
F The employers recognized union legitimacy
early on
F The unions never signed any national
agreement, similar to the Swedish Basic Agreement (1938) or the German Stinnes-Legien
agreement (1918),with the employers
F The unions had not posed a threat to the
employers who, therefore, created their national organization (C.B.I.) only in 1965
(Sweden [S.A.F.]-1902; Germany [B.D.A.]- 1885)
F Voluntarism - the IR/HRM system should
be self governing and government intervention should be kept to a minimum
The Post-W.W. II Era and The Erosion of Voluntarism
F A state of full employment until the mid-1970s
F A wave of unofficial strikes headed by shop
stewards
F The Donovan Commission (1968) - England has
two IR systems
F The government's white paper In Place Of
Strife (1969) is rejected by the unions
F Industrial Relations Act - 1971
F Trade Union and Labor Relations Act - 1974
F The Social Contract - 1974-76
F The Winter of Discontent - 1979
F Employment Act - 1980, 1982, 1988, 1990
F Trade Union Act - 1984, 1993
F Tony Blair and the New Labor - 1997 to Present (scroll to bottom of page)F
Tony Blair and the Labor Party win a third majority government for
the first time in history - May 5, 2005
F
June 26, 2007 - Gordon Brown (Labor) takes over from Tony
Blair