[The methods used by the Callaghan Labour government…]
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The methods used by the Callaghan Labour government through the agency of NOB, prepared the way for the Tories' present policy.
In 1974 to 1979, when the National Enterprise Board stepped into the breach to The Callaghan government delivered a number of body blows to shop floor organisation during this period, lining up workers in both the private and public sector for the coupde-grace from the Tories.
The most striking shops in Horwich in Lancashire, Staldor County anu Countu and Swindon.
Importantly, the Horwich Loco Workers Joint Action Committee have produced their own analysis in pamphlet form* of the underbroad and versatile skill base" will be cast into the uvie-lanu wudemess. dolo land.ildre It is estimated that if BR receives no increase in its investment quota in the next two years then 3,000 miles of BR's 11,000 miles of track will become unusShildon in the North East, Syd's former hunting ground, should be made a special case for keeping open, whereas Horwich and Swindon can be placed as offering on Peter Parker's altar of sacrifice.
The government are alan that Britain's trade unions will become acclimatised to being mere "business unions" like their counterparts in the USA.
Lord Cockfield (former Minister of State at the Treasury) put it well:
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