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1. How do Non-Unionised, Lower Paid Workers respond to Individual Problems at Work? Author : Anna Pollert and Andy Charlwood
In this article, we base our definition of vulnerable workers on non-unionism and weak labour market bargaining power (reflected in being in the bottom half of the pay range, or below median pay) and report on the types of workplace problems they e...

Monday, 23 June 2008 | Read more...

2. How can we best build a vibrant, growing trade union movement? Author : James Smith
How can we best build a vibrant, growing trade union movement, capable of reaching out to, and representing, the next generation of workers? The individualistic attitudes formed by a decade of Thatcherism may have damaged community and union par...

Friday, 25 May 2007 | Read more...

3. Health & Safety - Rebuilding Workplace Organisation Author : Martin Wicks
As the latest TUC H&S survey shows, we do not have the strength to take advantage of our legal rights in many workplaces. Whilst we must demand the application of existing law, and seek to improve it, the trades unions need to seriously dis...

Wednesday, 13 December 2006 | Read more...

4. Has safety had its chips? * Worst ever protection at work Author : Rory ONeill
Has safety had its chips? * Worst ever protection at work HSE is broke The official safety watchdog is broke, can’t do its job and is haemorrhaging staff. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill predicts over-stretched and under-protected...

Tuesday, 05 December 2006 | Read more...

5. History Matters: Trade Union Futures and the Present and Past of Trade Unionism Author : John McIlroy and Gary Daniels
Greater attention to history and a more critical stance towards New Labour and workplace partnership would help to recharge New Unionism. Trade union history matters. We need to grasp the past to comprehend the present. We need to encounter the pas...

Friday, 08 September 2006 | Read more...

6. How can we best build a vibrant, growing trade union movement? Author : Sheila Cohen
How can we best build the movement capable of reaching out, and representing, the next generation of workers? Why not start where we're already at? Why not…activate the activists? Workplace trade union activists - shop st...

Friday, 08 September 2006 | Read more...

7. HSE enforcement crisis: Hundreds of jobs to go Author : Rory ONeill
Come clean Health and Safety Executive (HSE) chief executive Geoffrey Podger and his Health and Safety Commission (HSC) sidekick Bill Callaghan say the enforcement-lite safety watchdog is performing well. But Hazards editor Rory O’Neill says...

Friday, 11 August 2006 | Read more...

8. History of Britain's Trade Unions Author : Dave Lyddon
‘The serious history of British trade unionism’ started with Sidney and Beatrice Webb in 1894, wrote Eric Hobsbawm some forty years ago. He continued: ‘If we leave aside the herculean attempts … of its founders and G. D. H....

Saturday, 08 April 2006 | Read more...

9. Health and Safety Executive Inspection of U.K. Semiconductor Manufacturers Author : andrew watterson
Europe plays a major role in the international semiconductor industry, but has conducted few studies of the occupational health of its workers. An exception is in the United Kingdom, where, in two small studies, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE...

Saturday, 11 February 2006 | Read more...


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