With Nigel Flanagan, author of “Our Trade Unions”
(This episode stands by itself, but it’s better if you have listened to Part 1 first)
Long time union organiser Nigel Flanagan – whose career has taken him as union militant, strike leader, full time organiser and activist to diverse corners of the global labour market, brings his experience to bear on the new possibilities that exist for strengthening the trade union movement, and questions the bases for the “new optimism” since the recent wave of strike action.
Not simply a reflection on his experience, Flanagan brings to the question of organising a sharp and critical analysis of the problems thrown up in the new world of work. Transatlantic and once fashionable organising theory is subject to a searching analysis and an uncompromising eye is cast over the latest developments in the trade union world.
Reading Nigel Flanagan’s words is a bruising experience for some but his starting point is one of fraternal criticism and solidarity.
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