Tuesday, 28 September 2010

‘No to austerity. Priority for jobs and growth!’ – Widespread resistance against public sector cuts in Europe.

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Bankers caused the financial market crisis through their mistakes, but it is now the people, who are asked to pay for it. While many banks a...
Thursday, 23 September 2010

Emerging resistance against budget cuts and the problems with New Labour

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On Wednesday, 22 September at 7.30 pm a public meeting took place in Nottingham/UK to discuss and organise resistance against cuts in the pu...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Globalisation and Trade Unions: different challenges and a variety of responses.

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Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure due to the increasing transnationalisation of production and informa...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Finnish trade unions in changing times – Part II: an attack on trade union rights?

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Some of the trade union representatives, interviewed in the period of 8 April to 12 May 2010, and here in particular representatives from tr...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010

What future for the right to strike in the UK?

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Yet again a planned strike was deemed illegal by a High Court judge in the UK. On Monday 17 May, Mr Justice McCombe ruled that Unite, the tr...
Friday, 14 May 2010

Finnish trade unions in changing times – Part I: the end of tripartism?

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In the period of 8 April to 12 May 2010, I carried out 23 interviews on the Finnish political economy with representatives of Finnish trade ...
Wednesday, 5 May 2010

The Winter of Discontent revisited

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Due to an increasing number of strikes the current situation has been compared with the so-called Winter of Discontent in 1978/1979. At a cl...