Britain: Militancy on the March - The Change Taking Place in the Unions We have covered the dramatic changes taking place in the British trade unions in previous articles. Here we examine these developments in the context of the 2002 TUC Congress which takes place this week.
New militant chapter opens for the British trade unions Today marks the end of the Trade Union Congress in Blackpool. It was a Congress that reflected the mood not seen since the hey-days of the miners' strike of 1984-85. Since that time, we have had a decade and a half of "new realism" and policies of (class) "collaboration" or "partnership", epitomised by the likes of Sir Ken Jackson, ex-general secretary of the AEEU. Now a wind of change has hit the trade union movement.
Interview with Jeremy Dear Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, was one of several left union leaders to be newly elected to the TUC General Council. Socialist Appeal spoke to him at the recent TUC Conference.
