Unions21 Articles

I am often asked how I became involved in unions, especially when I was easily the youngest full-time officer in most unions I worked for for nearly 10 years. How is it that I saw the worth and value of unions when I came from a working-class family in the south who...

Figures released by the TUC this week highlight the shocking extent of long-term youth unemployment. In the last year alone, the amount of young people unemployed for a period of 12 months or more has gone up by 264 per cent and although youth unemployment rose...

On Saturday I chaired a Progress conference session on Labour and the unions asking how we set about modernising the link. Blessed with a superb roll call of speakers and a packed room our debate was lively, pragmatic, honest and pretty much unanimous; the current...

‘There will come a time when the Treasury understands economics but it hasn’t happened yet’ and with that remark it was Martin Wolf of the Financial Times who became the darling of the Unions21 annual conference. Our conference theme of Unions and the New Economy...