ABSTRACT
Unless stated otherwise, the sources of what follows are: [Terry Cradden, The Making of NIPSA: A history of the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance, Belfast: December Books, 1998, and Edna Donnelly, ‘The struggle for Whitleyism in the Northern Ireland Civil Service’, Saothar 10 – Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 1984, pp. 12-18]. For a more detailed background [see Stephen Bloomer and Terry Cradden, ‘Negotiating and Consultation Machinery in the Public Services’, in S. Bloomer, T. Cradden, P. McCorry and B. Tipping, Industrial Relations in Northern Ireland: The Public Services, Belfast: Labour Relations Agency, 1992].
