U.K. miners, Govt in conflict
NZPA-Reuter London
British coalminers began an overtime ban on Monday in their first confrontation with the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and the Conservative Government since they ended a crippling year-long strike in March, 1985. The ban, called after the failure of talks between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and State-run British Coal over moves to change the miners’ disciplinary code, went ahead in spite of an
appeal by British Coal’s chairman, Robert Haslam. “I am surprised and saddened that the NUM is going ahead to impose an overtime ban which will inflict hardship in pay reductions on the miners and their families,” Mr Haslam said.
British Coal wants to break the union’s hold on the arbitration system by replacing so-called pitumpires, generally former union officials, with industrial tribunals in disputes over dismissal of union members.
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