Whitley Councils


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Whitley Councils

the COLLECTIVE BARGAINING institutions found in each department of the UK civil service and in the National Health Service.
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Although the system developed in the American needle trades put more emphasis on dispute settlement than did the Whitley Councils scheme and, consequently, utilized full-time, salaried, impartial experts to chair the joint conferences that were set up, it too was predicated on a "positive-sum vision of collective bargaining" in which rationalized production techniques were to go hand-in-hand with more stable wages and profits.
In three of Britain's most important industries, coal, railways, and transport, no Whitley Councils were even established.
So widespread was the popular appeal of Whitleyism at this time that even Allan Smith, the strongly antilabor head of the Engineering Employers' Federation who served as chair of the employers' group on the joint committee, felt compelled publicly to support the Whitley Councils approach, even though he privately opposed such cooperation.
Corporatism in comparative perspective: the impact of the First World War on American and British labor relations
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