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1. Defend the link – but make it work for union members! Cash for honours, New Labour and the Unions Author : John McIlroy
The cash for honours crisis provides further illustration, if further illustration were needed, of New Labour’s dedication to favours not fairness. It underlines this government’s abiding orientation to big business and the rich. More f...

Monday, 05 March 2007 | Read more...

2. Driven by Distraction Author : Bob Carter
The Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the National Association for Teachers in Further and Higher Education (Natfhe) merged to form a single union, the University and College Union (UCU), in June 2006. This paper examines the way that the ...

Friday, 26 January 2007 | Read more...

3. Decline and fall of UK OHS Author : andrew watterson
Analysis of UK HSE and its failings

Monday, 10 April 2006 | Read more...

4. Double Disadvantage? Minority Ethnic Women in Trade Unions Author : Geraldine Healy
This report investigates the experiences of minority ethnic women in four trade unions. It is set against a backcloth of vigorous initiatives on tackling racism in trade unions alongside a growing increase in racism and xenophobia in the UK and Eur...

Saturday, 11 March 2006 | Read more...

5. Democracy and Solidarity Author : Richard Hyman
Why is union democracy important? For four key reasons. First, unions have always identified their role, at least in part, as instruments for a more democratic order in industry and society. But how can they act as a channel of industrial democracy...

Wednesday, 08 March 2006 | Read more...


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