HC Deb 31 October 1989 vol 159 cc174-5W
2. Mr. Stern

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has any plans to limit the disruption of essential services by industrial action.

Mr. Eggar

The Government are reviewing the law as it affects industrial action in essential services. The proposals in the Green Paper "Unofficial Action and the Law" are designed to tackle the problem of wildcat strikes and other forms of unofficial industrial action which have been particularly damaging in such essential services as the London Underground and British Rail.

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