preparing the chance for transition out of the service and engaging in that process to inform them about trades and how to sign up for the various trade union. we have also discussed that with the trade unions and the bay area accordance. i will talk about that in a couple of slides. >we did meet with webcore and turner on the participation program going on in the field right now. we went through a much more extensive progress budget process to calculate participation in compliance this time. we are downloading the information and putting it into excel where we can better manipulate it. for most trades a straight one hourt to 5 hours, but there are a couple of trades operating engineers and the worst where it is worked out on a daily basis. for laborers, it is one of bodyto four. to four bodies. you look at it every day. so we're working with them to modify reporting so we can get all of the data automatically and on a more real-time basis going forward. webcore of the workshop with existing subcontractors, both on expectations and reporting requirements. putting in new standards of the subcontractors, but the documen to document participat

minister that he would not repeal -- that's you would not repeal the restraints imposed on trade you know 81s by the various trade unions act and associated legislation passed in the thatcher era and the quid pro quo was that his papers would endorse your election? >> no. this was a position i took because i believed in it. actually it was completely consistent with the positions i had taken when i was employment spokesman for the labor party. >> as i put to mr. murdoch a piece in "the times," i think it was the 31st of march, 1997, which indicated your position. but cause and effect here is completely disassociated, is that it? >> yeah. my view was one of the essential things labor had to do, you know, we were dogged throughout the '83, '87, '90, '92 elections with a position that said we were going to repeal all this conservative legislation, which i thought was not simply foolish politically for us, i thought it was wrong. you know, i went through all those campaigns. and in the end, i thought the closed shop was wrong as a matter of principle. i still do. so i didn't need rupert murdoch or anyone else to tell me abo

but before you keep became prime minister that you would not reveal constraints imposed by the various trade unions act and associated legislation passed in the thatcher area -- thatcher era and the quid pro quo that his papers would endorse your election? >> this is the position i took because i believed it and it was completely consistent with the positions i took when i was with the labour party. >> i think was the 31st of march, 1997, which indicated your position. cause and effect is completely dissociated? >> my view was one of the essential things labour had to do was we were dogged throughout the 83, 87, 1992 elections saying we are going to repeal all this conservative legislation, which i thought was not simply foolish politically, i thought it was wrong. i went through all of those campaigns and in the end, i thought to close shop was wrong as a matter of principle. i did not need rupert murdoch or anyone else to tell me about that. had we had a different position, that would have been a big problem with newspapers, but we did not take that position for that reason. it was a very importa