Abstract
In this article, I examine the work of the 1992-1993 Labour party trade union links review group. I ask whether the measures it proposed amounted to a new, durable settlement which governed internal relationships within the party. I detail disagreements amongst trade unions over the format that parliamentary selections should take; I evaluate the demands for reform of the party-union link; I ask whether support for reform and for OMOV was falling in the early 1990s; I consider whether unions launched a ‘no say no pay campaign’ with regard to the Labour party; I assess how much restraint was demonstrated at this time by Labour’s affiliated unions; and I consider what might have been at stake in these debates more generally. I conclude that there was considerable antagonism in party-union relations during the early 1990s and that the work of the review group did not amount to an enduring settlement
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 21 |
Number of pages | 46 |
Journal | Industrial Relations Journal |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 19 Feb 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 9 Mar 2016 |
Keywords
- Labour party
- trade unions
- modernisation
- parliamentary selections
- leadership elections
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Professor Mark Wickham-Jones
- School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies - Professor of Political Science
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