LETTER: CIVIL SERVICE UNION MEMBERSHIP

Sunday 29 October 1995 00:02 GMT

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YOUR report "Tories 'want civil service unions ban' ", (22 October) quoted union membership in the Foreign Office "as low as 17 per cent". The Diplomatic Service Trade Union Side is made up of four Civil Service unions. The average figure for membership is, in fact, over 50 per cent and growing.

Alexandra Cole

DSTUS Secretary Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London SW1

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