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Colleagues,
Buy it: Read itIn his lifelong analysis of industrial conflict and strike action the eminent industrial relations academic Richard Hyman was attempting to tackle his central concern around the relationship between industrial action and class consciousness. This analysis is…Read more…
Colleagues,
Ruskin College once again hosts the UK’s premiere opportunity to explore the intersection between frontline developments in the world of work and scholarly activity.
As with last year the line up features Ruskin staff and students of the …Read more…
Colleagues,
A brief post as I am just back at Ruskin to do some email before dashing to Belfast for a few days with my family for a fine blend of politics/culture.
I wanted to send a note of thanks to the black CWU activists I have been with since Fr…Read more…
Colleagues,
Just a quick post as I’m under the cosh at the moment, yet in one of those incredulous “just when you thought you’d heard it all phases” following the roll-out of Labour’s proposals on paternity leave/pay, and on hearing the sord…Read more…
Colleagues,
During last night’s Newsnight Emily Maitlis didn’t have to work too hard to get Ed Balls to blather nonsense about Labour’ special relationship with big business. So poor was Balls’ performance that shame and humiliation has…Read more…
Colleagues,
I’ve had little time to sit and write since returning to Ruskin after the Christmas break given the pace of work, although I have been desperate to write something in order to reflect upon and interpret much thought related to recent …Read more…
Colleagues,
Have returned to Ruskin from the Christmas break and, as it is as hectic as ever, I am copping out slightly of writing an original first post for 2015, by referencing a great article written In These Times just before the en…Read more…
Colleagues,
A strange title indeed for the last posted item of 2014, but I had to nip into the offices of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) yesterday as the organisation is on the move to a new base adjacent to the hotel it bought a couple…Read more…
Colleagues,
My colleague Caroline Holmes (co-ordinator of the BA ILTUS) at Ruskin College has pulled off a fantastic feat in organising the first student-based and led symposium of the Critical Labour Studies network (CLS: http://criticallabourst…Read more…
Colleagues,
We are approaching the last wretched gasps of the Coalition government, so it is no wonder then that much of the most urgent legislative reform is tabled at the end of a Parliamentary period, only after the ConDems have placed own prioriti…Read more…
Colleagues,
On Friday in Manchester, Mike Emmott of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), spoke at the 50th anniversary event of the Manchester Industrial Relations Society (MIRS) and condemned as “a big fuss” the trade union fi…Read more…
Colleagues,
I am in Belfast representing Ruskin at the invitation of Trish Lavelle (Head of Education) at the annual Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Union Learning Rep (ULR) networking event in Belfast.
Although I am here under the umbrella of Rus…Read more…
Colleagues,
Just a brief post as I am teaching at Ruskin this weekend as we have three cohorts of the BA international labour and trade union studies (ILTUS) in. What a fine bunch of trade unionists! Even though I am not feeling great, it is reviving to be here and to hear of their natural,…Read more…
Colleagues,
I spent last week in the US as part of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Empire State College (ESC) New York and Ruskin College.
The labour studies department of ESC is housed in the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Centre and is on…Read more…