HC Deb 17 December 1969 vol 793 c1367

Bill to improve industrial relations by setting out a Highway Code of good industrial relations practice, by reducing misunderstandings through ensuring that a limited company's workers are at least as well informed as its shareholders, by encouraging employers to modernise their grievance procedures and trade unions to modernise their own rules, by ensuring that new written agreements are binding on employers and trade unions unless both parties agree otherwise, by providng a civilised alternative procedure for resolving many disputes without the need to resort to strike action, by protecting the public from certain limited types of strike by withdrawing the blanket protection to call these particular strikes without risk of any penalty, and by other helpful measures, presented accordingly and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Friday 30th January 1970, and to be printed. [Bill 66.]