PRACTICAL—OR PIE IN THE SKY?: We're building a roof without first checking the foundations

Union leader, Clive Jenkins, says that management should acknowledge the “historic inevitability” of the Bullock Committee's proposals and confidently predicts that legislation will lead to the appearance of employee representatives in company boardrooms by January, 1979. While there may be those who disagree with both this assumption and forecast, it would be a mistake to believe that the committee's recommendations will fade into oblivion. Here, the issue is debated by British Home Stores and former ICI chief, Sir Jack Callard, and author and industrial consultant, Graham Turner. Both were speaking at a recent British Institute of Management conference on the Bullock report.