Editing Harold Wilson (section)

====Workers====
{{Main|Labour government, 1964–1970#Workers}}
The [[Industrial Training Act 1964]] set up an Industrial Training Board to encourage training for people in work,<ref name="Longman"/> and within seven years there were "27 ITBs covering employers with some 15 million workers."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDbRCaCPD7wC&q=labour+government+council+for+academic+awards+1964&pg=PA251|title=Teaching and Training in Post-compulsory Education|isbn=9780335222674|last1=Bryant|first1=Robin|last2=Dunnill|first2=Richard|last3=Flanagan|first3=Karen|last4=Hayes|first4=Dennis|date=1 December 2007|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education |access-date=1 November 2020|archive-date=17 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417194149/https://books.google.com/books?id=sDbRCaCPD7wC&q=labour+government+council+for+academic+awards+1964&pg=PA251|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1964 to 1968, the number of training places had doubled.<ref name="Labour 1968"/> The Docks and Harbours Act (1966) and the Dock Labour Scheme (1967) reorganised the system of employment in the docks in order to put an end to [[casual employment]].<ref name="shorthistory"/> The changes made to the Dock Labour Scheme in 1967 ensured a complete end to casual labour on the docks, effectively giving workers the security of jobs for life.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thespiritof45.com/How-We-Did-it |title=Ken Loach's film The Spirit Of '45 – How We Did it |publisher=Thespiritof45.com |access-date=10 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105051327/http://www.thespiritof45.com/how-we-did-it |archive-date=5 November 2013 }}</ref> Trade unions also benefited from the passage of the [[Trade Disputes Act 1965]]. This restored the legal immunity of trade union officials, thus ensuring that they could no longer be sued for threatening to strike.<ref name="taylor">''Mastering Economic and Social History'' by David Taylor.</ref>

The First Wilson Government also encouraged married women to return to teaching and improved Assistance Board Concessionary conditions for those teaching part-time, "by enabling them to qualify for pension rights and by formulating a uniform scale of payment throughout the country." Soon after coming into office, midwives and nurses were given an 11% pay increase,<ref name="Labour 1968"/> and according to one MP, nurses also benefited from the largest pay rise they had received in a generation.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1969/oct/31/pensions-and-education#S5CV0790P0_19691031_HOC_46 PENSIONS AND EDUCATION (Hansard, 31 October 1969.)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312115253/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1969/oct/31/pensions-and-education#S5CV0790P0_19691031_HOC_46 |date=12 March 2016 }} vol 790 cc509-608 – api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2012.</ref> In May 1966, Wilson announced 30% pay rises for doctors and dentists—a move which did not prove popular with unions, as the national pay policy at the time was for rises of between 3% and 3.5%.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/4/newsid_2502000/2502925.stm |title=1966: Doctors and dentists get huge pay rise |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008100355/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/4/newsid_2502000/2502925.stm |archive-date=8 October 2017 |work=BBC Home: On this day – 1950–2005 |date=4 May 1966 |access-date=14 January 2012}}</ref>

Much needed improvements were made in junior hospital doctors' salaries. From 1959 to 1970, while the earnings of manual workers increased by 75%, the salaries of registrars more than doubled while those of house officers more than trebled. Most of these improvements, such as for nurses, came in the pay settlements of 1970. On a limited scale, reports by the [[National Board for Prices and Incomes]] encouraged incentive payments schemes to be developed in local government and elsewhere. In February 1969, the government accepted an "above the ceiling" increase for farmworkers, a low-paid group. Some groups of professional workers, such as nurses, teachers, and doctors, gained substantial awards.<ref name="inequality"/>