The Economist magazine’s A-Z of business quotations focuses on unions and includes the timeless wisdom of the late American Lawyer Louis Brandeis:
“Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labour bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labour contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organised and that their organisations must be recognised by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/11/z-business-quotations
#tuc12 In a historic first the TUC this year gathers in Brighton and starts it deliberations on the Sabbath. The Presbyterian influence on our great movement must be waning and no one has mentioned the issue of double time for delegates. Plus ca change.......
So much for Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ giving power to the people. The consultation on the NHS White Paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ has been exposed as nothing more than lip service of the worst kind. The proposals in this White Paper are the most fundamental changes to the NHS...
