The UK New Unionism project
by Peter Hall-Jones and Dr Conor Cradden
 What lessons can be learned from the UK’s “New Unionism” project? When it was first launched by the TUC in 1997 the stars seemed aligned for a phenomenal transformation in UK industrial relations. Then, all of a sudden, nothing happened. Or, rather, a lot happened - both good and bad - but nothing really changed. In this discussion we suggest that the whole issue of partnership needs to be looked at again in the UK, as part of a workplace-centred agenda for industrial democracy, with less emphasis on formal agreements and no assumptions at all of government support. For more on this story, click here 
In Retrospect...
An interview with Prof Edmund Heery
 In continuing our look at the UK’s “New Unionism Project ”, we interviewed one of the labour movement's leading academics, Professor Edmund Heery, who was involved with the project at almost every level. Although regarding the project positively, Heery is under no illusions as to the difficulties unions faced in developing a new approach. Toput it simply, there are no simple answers.
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