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David Coats Articles

Fightback?

Trade union and Labour party politics are ever more intertwined – David Coats —Sidney and Beatrice Webb literally wrote the book on trade unionism in the 1890s and identified three elements of what they called the trade union method: collective bargaining, mutual...
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We need to get beyond ‘struggles, strikes and strife’

I began my career in the trade union movement in the late 1980s, when the Conservative governments of the time presented parliament with a new piece of restrictive anti-union legislation every 18 months. A huge amount of effort was expended by the Trades Union...
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Time to shape a distinctively Labour economic policy project

The Progress editorial this month has correctly identified that the absence of a distinctive Labour project for the British economy has made it difficult for us to re-establish our credibility and take George Osborne successfully to task. All politicians claim to be...
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The politics of work

By 2020 the fruits of growth must be more fairly shared at work, argues David Coats ‘Prediction is always difficult, especially about the future’. This observation, generally attributed to the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, is of particular relevance when we consider...
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