British I. R. -I.R. Environment and Ideology

I- Legislative Changes under the Thatcher Government

•Five separate pieces of legislation 1980-90

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•Regulated unions, collective bargaining, picketing and industrial conflict and a few related matters

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•Designed to avoid the “all at once” approach of 1971 that helped bring down that Conservative Government


	I- Legislative Changes under the Thatcher Government ‑ Philosophy has changed from consulting with unions to weakening and neutralizing them

	Regulated unions, collective bargaining, industrial conflict
	Often the same issue was addressed several times (e.g. secret ballot elections, closed shop) with legislation increasingly restrictive of unions