§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether particular concern has been expressed to him during his consultations on the Green Paper concerning the practice of requiring contractors to use only union labour; what form these representations have taken; and how many local authorities have made representations to him complaining of union labour only clauses in contracts.
§ Mr. WaddingtonIn the course of consultations on the Green Paper on "Trade Union Immunities" we have received many representations from employers, employers organisations and others about the practice of requiring 93W contractors to use only union labour. We have received no complaints about this practice from local authorities. But since the vast majority of complaints we have received have been about Labour-controlled local authorities that have imposed union labour only requirements on others, that is hardly surprising.