Talk:Port of London Act 1908

Claims to be an early example of co-determination

The claim that this Act was the world's first example of co-determination law seems to be stretching the definition of co-determination somewhat. The Co-determination article lists two earlier UK ones, so it is clearly not the first, but the quoted section of the act does not say that employees had voting rights, but that the Board of Trade and the London County Council should consult "organisations representative of labour" (i.e. trade unions) before appointing two of the board's members. There is nothing to say that the representative organisations held votes on this selection. They more likely nominated representatives from the unions' own executives. There is also nothing to suggest that the "labour" being referred to were specifically employees of the board. Notoriously, much of the labour working in the London docks was casual rather than directly employed (see London dock strike, 1889).--DavidCane (talk) 22:48, 3 August 2019 (UTC)