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GCHQ talks collapse

01 November 1993

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Talks between civil service union leaders and the Cabinet Secretary, sir Robin Butler, about the restoration of trade union rights at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the intelligence gathering centre in Cheltenham, have broken down. The Cabinet Secretary suggested that the staff federation, a powerless body that was created in the wake of Margaret Thatcher's ban on trade unions at GCHQ in 1984, should be made less dependant on the GCHQ director. Civil service union leaders maintain that GCHQ members should have a right to belong to a trade union of their choice. The International Labour Organisation has threatened to condemn the British government for breaching its convention on freedom of association.

Independent 11.11.93.

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