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Britain's current Labour government is facing the opposition not only of the Trades Union Congress in its latest push to narrow the jurisdiction of its workplace dispute tribunal system, but also that of some of its own members. Labour Party backbenchers insist that the legislation in question---which would establish a three stage grievance procedure leading up to tribunal hearings---is one more in a string of bills that are weighting the tribunal system against workers. In an interesting twist, Conservative MP's have recently come out against the modifications specified in the bill as overly costly to businesses and detrimental to competition.