Trade unions Articles

It is time for Labour to lead the debate on the digitalised economy Labour, and the liberal left more widely, have been dealt a series of hammer blows. Crushing election defeats in 2010 and 2015 illustrated a lack of trust in centre-left economics. The Brexit vote and...

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...

Labour is healthier when it is a broad church, says Ellie Reeves Ellie Reeves sees her decade on the National Executive Committee come to an end at this Labour party conference. At 25, she was the youngest person to be elected to the constituency section – ‘no one has...

As a Labour councillor in Conservative-run Bexley, I know the damage the lack of real leadership is doing to our reputation and electability in the areas we seek to represent. Areas desperately need a Labour council, a Labour government, areas that have voted for...