Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention, 1978 (No. 151) - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Ratification: 1980)

1. The Committee notes the Government's report. In particular it notes that the change in position relating to the application to House of Lords staff of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 was the result of legal advice, and not of the High Court decision referred to in the Committee's 1988 observation.

2. At its last session the Committee examined, under Convention No. 98, certain matters relating to collective bargaining in the teaching sector in England and Wales. The Committee notes that in January 1990 the Trades Union Congress addressed certain comments to it in relation to this matter. These comments have been transmitted to the Government for its observations. The Committee will take account of the issues raised by the TUC, in the light of the Government's observations, when it examines the application of Convention No. 98 at its next session.