HC Deb 30 May 1961 vol 641 c12
16. Mr. Brockway

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if recognition will be given to the Society of Administrative and Executive Civil Servants in Malta.

The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Iain Macleod)

The Society has been recognised as a trade union since it first registered as such in 1954.

Mr. Brockway

Has not there been some difficulty recently, because this union claims the right to withhold labour? What has been the result of the negotiations about that point?

Mr. Macleod

There are current negotiations, and I think that both the matters to which this union attaches importance—that of separate negotiation and, if necessary, of ultimate arbitration—have been conceded to it on this issue.

Mr. Brockway

Thank you.

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