UNITE History Volume 6 (1992-2010): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): Unity for a New Era

This is the final book in a series of volumes on the history of the Transport & General Workers Union (T&G). It discusses how the union turned to restructuring and engaged US management consultants to fit the new millennium, and how a three-way union merger became a reality with the merger of the T&G and Amicus to form Unite.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

This is the concluding volume in a series of volumes on the history of the Transport & General Workers Union (T&G). Following the neo-liberal onslaught on unions and working people, led by Margaret Thatcher and John Major in the 1980s and 1990s, the unions, including the T&G, were forced to make difficult choices about their future. Initially, the T&G resorted to restructuring and hired US management consultants to provide recommendations on how the union should adapt to the rapidly approaching new millennium. At the same time, forward-thinking unions in other parts of the world, particularly in the US and Australia, recognized that the way out of the crisis was to shift from the servicing model, where the union provided services for its members, to the organizing model, where the union worked alongside. with its members. Early in the millennium, the political and industrial logic of forming a large general workers union became increasingly apparent.

This fascinating volume examines the history of the T&G and considers how a three-way union merger eventually became a reality with the merger of the T&G and Amicus to form Unite.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781802074864