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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Andy Pike, Dr Peter O'Brien, Professor John Tomaney
From a position of relative isolation, trade unions have become increasingly important agents in local and regional development and governance in the UK since the election of the New Labour government in 1997. Analysis of the experience of the Northern Trades Union Congress (NTUC) suggests that devolution and regionalisation are exerting increasing pressures upon trade union federations to adopt a multi-level approach to organisation across a range of scales -local, sub-regional, regional, sub-national, national and international - to connect with the evolving multi-layered governance structures of the UK political economy. Strategic multi-level organisation suggests the decentralisation of power, authority and resources within the labour movement - challenging the national and centralised legacy of its collective bargaining history - and a division of labour and set of priorities at the different scales to build the links between local and regional engagement and trade union renewal.
Author(s): Pike A, O'Brien P, Tomaney J
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Local Economy
Year: 2004
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Pages: 102-116
Print publication date: 01/05/2004
ISSN (print): 0269-0942
ISSN (electronic): 1470-9325
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0269094042000203072
DOI: 10.1080/0269094042000203072
