Great Britain: growth, employment and cutting public expenditure featured in the parties’ manifestos for the coming general election

For the first time in many years, there are no specific policy pledges on industrial relations from any of the three main parties (although the manifestos have yet to be launched). This reflects two phenomena.
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more social conflicts. With the general elections called for Thursday, May 6th in mind, Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire, looked, for Planet Labor, at the policies of the main political parties (Labor, Conservative, and Liberal Democrats) on industrial relations and the likely impact of their other policies (on public expenditure) upon industrial relations. (Ref. 100298)

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