According to John Duffy and his co-authors of the Jimmy Reid Foundation report on industrial democracy entitled Working Together, a major plank of the future of industrial relations in Scotland should be based on the adoption of European “models” involving employee forums, works councils and employee seats on company boards. It is a proposition that […]
Posts Tagged ‘Industrial Democracy’
Could the German economic model be Ed Miliband’s ‘big idea’?
Aug 15th, 2013 by Mark Seddon.David Cameron was recently filmed lecturing a group of manufacturing workers with the inimical advice that ‘frankly we have to be more Germanic in our work practices’. That was pretty rich coming from an old Etonian who, like George Osborne, has never had a proper job in his life. But it set me thinking – […]
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Hollande and the French economy (part 1)
May 16th, 2012 by Andy Newman.Enthusiasm for François Hollande’s new government in France is understandable, as it provides a popular mandate for an economic alternative to austerity, and a programme for economic growth. As Trevor Martin exhorts in his recent Tribune article “Let us follow where Hollande leads”. Michael Meacher sketches an outline of what Hollande’s policies would mean translated […]
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Time for Economic Democracy
Aug 10th, 2010 by Peter Tatchell.Aside from the unfair voting system and the use of big money to buy political power and influence, Britain is, broadly speaking, a political democracy. But when it comes to the economy, we remain a dictatorship. A rich and powerful economic elite makes all the key economic decisions, disenfranchising millions of employees and consumers. Our country’s democratic political transformation – […]
