Arbitrator to go
(N.Z.P.A.-Keuter—Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 19.
The British Government has told its top arbitrator oi pay disputes. Professor Hugh Clegg, that he will not be kept on after his three-yeai term of office expires on March 10. The decision is regarded as virtually the sack for Professor Clegg, unpaid chairman of the Public. Service
Arbitration Tribunal which decides on the outcome oi pay disputes involving Government departments. Informed sources said that it was believed the reason the Conservative Government has decided not to extend Professor Clegg’s term was because he was considered too friendly towards the trade unions.
He accepted the unions' nomination to sit on an official inquiry into a national dustmen’s strike last year. The outcome of the inquiry was the award of a 15 per cent , pay rise for the strikers.
Professor Clegg, who is 50, is a professor of industrial relations at Warwick University and a director of the Industrial Relations Council. Among the official bodies on which he has served are the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations in 1965-68.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32536, 20 February 1971, Page 17
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