Bullock Report

the report of the Committee of Inquiry on Industrial Democracy, chaired by Sir Alan Bullock and published in 1977. The Committee was created in response to growing interest in the UK in the 1970s in INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY, among both TRADE UNIONS and the population at large. The report recommended that company BOARDS OF DIRECTORS be restructured to include equal numbers of representatives of the workforce and of shareholder representatives, plus a third group of independent members (known as the 2x + y formula). The Report was never implemented, though an experiment in board representation took place in the Post Office.

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There was a moment in 1979, following the Bullock Report, when a similar system was being considered for the UK.

Could appointing workers to boards fix capitalism's crisis?

It is interesting to consider which was the biggest' tipping point' at the time - the 1975 Bullock Report which recommended improvements in reading, writing and spoken English or the demise of the Moonlight Saunter.

75% party games, 25% disco music and 100% hassle; LES WALTON is still mightily proud of his school Christmas Party Policy from 1975

Indeed, when I entered the world of education in the early 1970s, a publication which gained much attention was the Bullock Report, whose main recommendation was that every secondary school should develop a policy for language across the curriculum.

Our challenge is to move on from teaching for a pen-and-paper world; Former headteacher Gareth Jones steps down as secretary of school leaders' union ASCL Cymru this week. As he draws the curtain on his seven years in the job, he describes what he considers 'the challea nge of changea '

(1978) 'The Bullock Report and employee participation in corporate planning in the UK', Journal of Comparative Corporate Law and Securities Regulation 1: 245-72.

Labour's kryptonite? The lessons of the Bullock Commission on industrial democracy

Mr Bell said the Bullock report on reading in state schools, published in 1975, set out many failings that were still affecting schools.

Joy of reading lost on children - Ofsted chief

In his 1977 Bullock Report,commissioned by Callaghan's Government, he recommended greater workers'participation, which would allow their representatives to sit on company boards.

OBITUARY: Lord Bullock

Bullock Committee (1977), Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Industrial Democracy (Bullock Report), HMSO, London.

A third cheer for empowerment? In search of a framework

The intensity of the campaigns waged by UK employers against the recommendations of the Bullock Report, the Fifth Directive, and, more recently, the Social Charter were probably due as much to the philosophical chasm facing employers as to concerns about the real flaws in some of the recommendations and any cost implications.

Becoming World Class

Mr Bullock reports into Tony Douglas, who continues as Chief Executive of 8AA Heathrow, with overall responsibility for the future development and growth of Heathrow Airport, and BAA's construction business, BAA Capital Projects.

New BAA appointments

Karen Bullock reports on the findings of a major study of grandparents raising grandchildren (Bullock, 2004).

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