South Wales Coalfield Collection

Trades Union Congress

Minutes, circulars, correspondence and reports regarding the Trades Union Congress, Steel Committee, Education Committee, and the Wales Trade Union Council, 1965-84.

Files

Ref No. Description Dates
MNC/ISTC/D/4/1 Trades Union Congress Steel Committee minutes and papers.
Contains copies of Trades Union Congress Steel Committee minutes (1976-77) and accompanying papers. Other TUCSC papers and correspondence include the retirement pensions and the Social Security Bill. A paper on the principles of strategy in areas of Britain. Plant closures, and correspondence regarding agreements between the British Steel Corporation and the steel unions. Also correspondence concerning a dispute between BSC and the National Craftsmen Coordinating Committee, and disputes at the East Moors works and Port Talbot works.
6.1967-2.1978
MNC/ISTC/D/4/2 Trades Union Congress Steel Committee minutes and papers.
Contains copies of minutes from the Trades Union Congress Steel Committee, a copy of the TUC Industrial Relations bulletin, and papers regarding the Steel Contract and the future of the TUCSC. Also includes two copies of memoranda of agreements (23.12.1977 and 8.3.1978) between the British Steel Corporation and the TUCSC regarding payments due to closures at the East Moors Works.
10.2.1977-8.3.1978
MNC/ISTC/D/4/3 Trades Union Congress Steel Committee minutes and circulars.
Contains copies of Trades Union Congress Steel Committee minutes and circulars on various issues such as the delegate conference, TUC unemployed workers centres, Manpower Services Commission skill centres, privatisation, sick pay, the Trade Union Bill, and the miners; strike and Government Communications Headquarters dispute.
27.7.1976-25.2.1985
MNC/ISTC/D/4/4 Iron and Steel Trades Confederation copy of the joint working group on the Steel Contract report.
Includes a copy of the report produced by the British Steel Corporation and the Trades Union Congress Steel Committee, and copies of a synopsis of the report and a response to its major recommendations by the British Steel Corporation.
3.1978-7.1978
MNC/ISTC/D/4/5 Trades Union Congress Steel Committee staff working party minutes and papers.
Contains minutes of the Trades Union Congress Steel Committee and its working party, copies of agenda and correspondence regarding its work, including industrial relations, wages and working conditions, trade union membership, and maternity leave.
11.1975-5.1978
MNC/ISTC/D/4/6 Trades Union Congress Education Advisory Committee for Wales correspondence and minutes.
Contains circulars of the Trades Union Congress Education Advisory Committee for Wales regarding their programme of events and courses run. Also includes copies of the minutes of the annual meetings (1981-82).
4.1979-9.1982
MNC/ISTC/D/4/7 Trades Union Congress Education Advisory Committee for Wales correspondence, minutes and circulars.
Contains circulars of the Trades Union Congress Education Advisory Committee for Wales regarding their programme of events and courses run. Also copies of minutes of the following meetings : the TUC Education Advisory Committee for Wales (19.3.1982), and annual meeting (4.9.1981). And the Trade Union Advisory Committees held at the Bridgend College of Technology and the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education (3.1982).
9.1981-9.1982
MNC/ISTC/D/4/8 Trades Union Congress Education Advisory Committee for Wales circulars.
Copies of circulars from the Wales Trades Union Council regarding training and nominations for the committee (1984-85).
7.1983-6.1984
MNC/ISTC/D/4/9 Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee papers.
Contains copies of memoranda, statements and decisions from the Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee regarding disputes between the British Steel Corporation, the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades at the Llanwern and Port Talbot works. Includes supporting correspondence regarding the disputes regarding working conditions and wages.
8.1965-22.12.1977
MNC/ISTC/D/4/10 Trades Union Congress general council decisions.
Copies of decisions passed in the committees and at general council of the Trades Union Congress.
27.4.1977-28.8.1982
MNC/ISTC/D/4/11 Trades Union Congress occupational pensions bulletins.
The bulletins contain information on pensions and other financial advice.
1.1.1978-10.11.1982
MNC/ISTC/D/4/12 Trades Union Congress social security bulletins.
The bulletins contain the decisions of the National Insurance commissioners regarding social security benefits.
1.2.1978-5.7.1980
MNC/ISTC/D/4/13 Trades Union Congress industrial relations bulletins.
The bulletins contain information on unfair dismissal and compensation. Also included are copies of the following booklets. 'Accidents at work, a guide to your legal rights'. 'The Factories Act, 1961'. 'Protecting people at work, an introduction to the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974'. 'Office, shops and railway premises Act, 1963'. 'Unfair dismissal'.
1961-2.1978
MNC/ISTC/D/4/14 Wales Trades Union Council conference circulars.
Copies of circulars from the Wales Trades Union Council to the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades concerning the Wales TUC Annual Conference of 1980. Also includes a preliminary report of the annual conference.
1.1.1980-23.12.1980
MNC/ISTC/D/4/15 Wales Trades Union Council conference circulars.
Circulars from the Wales Trades Union Council to the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades regarding the Welsh annual conferences at Porthcawl and Cardiff. Includes general circulars regarding attendance at the conferences, copies of agenda, motions proposed, preliminary reports, and reports produced by the TUC on issues such as technology and unemployment.
2.1981-11.1983
MNC/ISTC/D/4/16 Wales Trades Union Council conference circulars.
Copies of circulars from the Wales Trades Union Council to the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades regarding the 1984 Welsh annual conference at Llandudno. Includes a copy of the agenda, a conference statement, and reports from the TUC on privatisation, and health and safety. Also a copy of the Wales TUC annual report (1983).
4.1984
MNC/ISTC/D/4/17 Wales Trades Union Council circulars.
Copies of circulars from the Wales Trades Union Council to the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades covering a range of issues including annual conferences, race relations, industrial disputes, unemployment, and the promotion of specific issues by the council, including nuclear disarmement and youth unemployment.
5.1.1981-13.2.1984

 


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