Catalogue description Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (1965 to 1968): Minutes, Papers and Correspondence

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Reference: LAB 28
Title: Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (1965 to 1968): Minutes, Papers and Correspondence
Description:

This series comprises papers of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations. The papers include minutes, submissions made and evidence given by various authorities, commercial enterprises, trade unions and individuals and the research papers compiled from these findings for consideration by the commission, and a copy of the report of the commission.
Date: 1965-1968
Arrangement:

Please note that the catalogue item numbers equate to the original paper numbers on the document, and therefore not all consecutive item numbers have been used. A few items do not have an original reference numbers on the document and for cataloguing purposes these have been referenced as 'U', or occasionally 'U1' and 'U2' etc if there is more than one unreferenced original document in the same piece.
Related material:

For records of the Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations see: NF
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations, 1965-1968
Physical description: 620 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Unpublished finding aids:

A List of Those Who Submitted Written Evidence is included in the Appendix to List of LAB 28/1-14 which may be found in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.

Administrative / biographical background:

The Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations was appointed by Royal Warrant dated 8 April 1965, 'to consider relations between managements and employees and the role of trade unions and employers' associations in promoting the interests of their members and in accelerating the social and economic advance of the nation with particular reference to the Law affecting the activities of these bodies'. The commission was chaired by Counsellor Terence Norbert, Baron Donovan. The report of the commission was presented to Parliament and published in June 1968 [Cmnd.3623].

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