Will management play it tough!
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PS J TUC SOGAT workers demonstrated on April 1? lahore (X:031 THE DHSS 1979 circular "If Industrial Relations reak Down" spelis out a series of management tactics, such as non-payment of striking staff.
In a confidential document for Leicestershire AHA management these points have been expanded on:
"Employees who present themselves for work but refuse to work normally (...) will be regarded as being in breach of contract.
He or she will be offered such a proportion of normal payments as considered appropriate by management in relation to the proportion of work done. This will take the form of an ex gratia payment and will not be the subject of negotiation.
OR The employees concerned shall be advised that all pay shall be stopped whilst industrial action continues but the Authority is prepared to pay on a fulltime basis that number of staff which the Authority considers necessary to maintain the level of service offered.
OR Where in the opinion of management the level of service offered is not acceptable l. . .), the appropriate manager will determine whether or not the refusal to work normally constitutes a serious and material breach of contract which justifies the sending home of the employee concerned without pay.
On any day when an employee works less than his contractual hours he is in breach of contract and loses his right to be paid for that day. management may exercise their right to withhold pay for such time as management estimates that the employee was in breach of his contract or may offer an ex gratia payment, which will not be negotiable, based upon • the proportion of the day which was worked."
The overall impression is that a very different and much harder management response is likely in this dispute than in the dispute in 1978/9.
It also means that if we are to win this dispute, then there can be no half measures.
Work to rules, lightning strikes, etc., are useful only insofar as they prepare the membership for all-out strike action as the only way to defeat management and the government.
Charlie Sarell Hdisdin.a. ord healti
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