30 November, 2011 // Category: History, Labour movement
Gregor Gall is professor of industrial relations at the University of Hertfordshire and is one of the leading commentators on trade unionism in the UK. He is on the editorial board of Scottish Left Review and is the author, most recently, of Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero?: A Political...
19 September, 2011 // Category: Labour movement
So, after last week’s TUC, we’re on our way to the biggest mass strike in a generation on 30 November 2012, right? Well, neither exactly right nor exactly wrong. Before we on the left whip up ourselves into a frenzy of ‘here we go, here we go’, there are quite a few stages that need to be...
27 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Vision/Strategy
I find myself in the very unusual position of suggesting a moderate union leader has engaged in infantile ultra-leftism. I’m referring to the claim by Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, that he would ‘mount the most sustained campaign of industrial action the country has seen since the...
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