Trade union history

This feature on migrant labour and the TGWU in the 1960s and 1970s is a work in progress, with ongoing research into relations in West Midlands foundries in the 1960s, the ban on bus workers […]

MIDLANDS CANAL BARGE MASTERS, CREWS, AND FAMILIES  & THE TRANSPORT & GENERAL WORKERS UNION (1920-70) The biggest dispute ever organised by a trade union, which only concerned canal boat workers was the strike of Transport […]

BRITISH BUS DEREGULATION a review by   GRAHAM STEVENSON   NATIONAL ORGANISER – TRANSPORT   Transport & General Workers Union.   (2000 –  first published in pamphlet form by the International Transport Workers Federation)     […]

AN ILLUSTRATED BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE BRITISH TRADE UNION AND WORKING CLASS MOVEMENTS A short and very personal illustrated history of the British trade union movement .  Organisations to defend the rights of paid workers, […]