Industrial Relations (T3)

Question 1

What employment opportunities did WW2 lead too?

Answer 1

• More Women in workforce

- Better working conditions; improved healthcare, longer hours but better wages.

Question 2

What is the Control of employment Act?

Answer 2

Semi-skilled workers could take on skilled jobs

Question 3

What was the essential work order?

Answer 3

Forced people to do particular jobs, 8.5 million

Question 4

Why was there a growth in the ‘white collar’ industry?

Answer 4

• Higher levels of income fuelled more demand for ‘luxury’ goods and services, like meals out which created jobs.
  -More public sector jobs due to increase in spending
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Question 5

What industries suffered?

Answer 5

Traditional industries suffered and there were huge falls in the number of miners and shipwrights

Question 6

What did education do?

Answer 6

Gave people better mobility

Question 7

What were the strikes during the war about?

Answer 7

Wages

Hours

Question 8

Who became Minister of Labour in 1940?

Answer 8

Bevin, a trade unionist

Question 9

What did Bevin promote?

Answer 9

Working relationships between unions and management

Question 10

Who were the Bevin Boys?

Answer 10

Young British men conscripted to work in the coal mines between 1943 and 1948

Question 11

What did war lead to?

Answer 11

Inclusion of trade unions into many government decision making bodies

Question 12

What did Attlee’s government do?

Answer 12

• Working with unions established as part of the consensus
• Key industries nationalised
• Trade unionist inclusion on the board of the nationalised Bank of England

Question 13

What did the 1927 Trade Disputes Act being repealed mean?

Answer 13

It gave the unions more power and making Labour more reliant on union funding

Question 14

When was the Conservative industrial charter?

Answer 14

1947

Question 15

What was the Conservative industrial charter?

Answer 15

It showed consensus views on cooperation with the unions and protecting labour rights

Question 16

What industrial relations in 1950’s like?

Answer 16

• Full employment and high trade union membership

- Growing divide between the workers and middle class

Question 17

Who were the prosperous trade union leaders in the 50’s?

Answer 17

Vic feather

Jack jones

Question 18

What could shop stewards do?

Answer 18

They could call unofficial ‘wildcat’ strikes

They wanted a greater share in consumerism

Question 19

What was happening to the relationship between the conservatives and the Trade Unions?

Answer 19

Deteriorating.

The number of strikes 1955-1964 was double of 1945-1950.

Question 20

What increased in the 1960’s?

Answer 20

The number of ‘Wildcat’ strikes they accounted for 90% of all strikes.

Question 21

What was there a clear and present feeling of in the TUC’s?

Answer 21

Militancy- caused by workers whose wages fell behind inflation.

Question 22

What was unemployment like in the 1970’s?

Answer 22

1 million in 1972

Question 23

What had reached crisis point in the 70’s?

Answer 23

tensions with the unions- 3 day week and the winter of discontent

Question 24

What did Wilson attempt to do with the trade unions?

Answer 24

He attempted to have a close relationship with the unions

Question 25

What act was passed in 1965?

Answer 25

Trade Disputes Act- restored certain legal immunities for TU's

Question 26

What did Barbara Castles 1969 'In place of strife' proposed? (3)

Answer 26

- Secret ballots before strikes become compulsory - A cooling off period of 90 days could be imposed at ministerial discretion - Fines be available for breaches of the law by union activists

Question 27

Was 'In place of strife' successful?

Answer 27

No it was so unpopular with unions it was never implemented.

Question 28

What strike was there in 1966?

Answer 28

The national Seamens strike

Question 29

What did the seamen want? | What was the outcome?

Answer 29

a 17% pay rise | The strikers give up

Question 30

What was Heath's attitude towards the unions?

Answer 30

Selsdon man wanted to limit the power of the unions and refuse to prop failing industries.

Question 31

When was the Industrial relations act?

Answer 31

1971

Question 32

What was the industrial relations act?

Answer 32

- Places limits of the right to strike - Insisted unions had to place themselves on a government register - Established the National Industrial Relation Court to judge the legality of strike action.

Question 33

Was the Industrial relations act a success?

Answer 33

The act failed because unions reused to comply.

Question 34

What strike happened in 1972?

Answer 34

Nation Union of Miners strike + 3 day week.

Question 35

What happened at the Nation Union of Miners strike + 3 day week?

Answer 35

NUM demanded a 43% pay rise Government offers 8% 200 000 miners went on strike.

Question 36

What was the Govt. response to the Nation Union of Miners strike + 3 day week.?

Answer 36

- Government declared a state of emergency. | - The government eventually offered a 27% pay rise.

Question 37

What strike happened in 1974?

Answer 37

NUM strike + 3 day working week.

Question 38

What happened at the 1974 NUM strike + 3 day working week?

Answer 38

- 1973 oil crisis led to higher wage demands. | - The NUM dekanded a 35% pay rise.

Question 39

What did the 3 day week involve?

Answer 39

- Commercial electricity use limited to 3 days each week - Industry worked 3 days a week - 50mph driving limit - Some schools closed - Tv ended at 10:30 pm each night