Indsutiral Wilson And Callaghan Flashcards
What did the Labour the TUC social contract do ?
Improved cooperation of unions controlling wage increase, gov keep prices down and provide welfare benefits and return to free collective bargaining over wages
- contributed to inflation due to wage increase and opinion polls showed public saw Jack Johnes leader of Trasponrt workers Union as most powerful man
- cynics: ‘government gave and unions took’
How was the 1974 miners strike dealt with ?
Settled with 29% pay increase which contributed to inflation rates reaching 30% by mid 1975
Explain the winter of discontent 78-79?
Dec 1978 ford worker strike won pay increase of 15%
- National Union of Public Employees demanded 40% increase causing strikes
- effects felt as gravediggers strike and so did bin men
- press exploited labelling it as symptomatic of countries decline
- Callaghan appears complaining t and out of touch as he spent a week attending summit in West Indies ‘ crisis? What crisis?’
