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Why the trade union link still matters to the Labour Party
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The year is 1900, and on a chilly February morning, a group of men in heavy woollen suits are deep in conversation in the Congregational Memorial Hall on Farringdon Street in London.
Exasperated by the existing political parties, these grizzled trade unionists have come together to form a group of their own, the Labour Representation Committee. In the future, it will be better known by the name it adopts six years later the Labour Party.
Labour s rise was extraordinarily swift. In less than 25 years, it had overtaken the Liberals to become one of the two great forces in British politics.
In 1924, Ramsay MacDonald, the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid, became its first prime minister.
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Unite election: no good options Submitted by AWL on 20 April, 2021 - 4:59
Author: Ollie Moore
Members of Unite, one of Britain’s largest trade unions, will elect a new general secretary. Len McCluskey, who has been in office since 2010, has announced his retirement. The branch nomination period will run from 6 May to 7 June, with members voting by postal ballot from 5 July to 23 August, and the result announced on 26 August.
There are four declared candidates so far Howard Beckett, Steve Turner, Sharon Graham, and Gerard Coyne. All four are current or former unelected officials of the union. Constitutional arrangements which allow unelected, paid employees of unions to intervene in their democracy are far from ideal, and help bolster the power of bureaucracies against rank-and-file members. Nevertheless, there are meaningful differences between the candidates.