Trade Unions in Local and Regional Development and Governance: The Northern Trades Union Congress in North East England

Andy Pike, Peter O'Brien and John Tomaney
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Andy Pike: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Peter O'Brien: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
John Tomaney: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Local Economy, 2004, vol. 19, issue 2, 102-116

Abstract: From a position of relative isolation, trade unions have become increasingly important agents in local and regional development and governance in the UK since the election of the New Labour government in 1997. Analysis of the experience of the Northern Trades Union Congress (NTUC) suggests that devolution and regionalisation are exerting increasing pressures upon trade union federations to adopt a multi-level approach to organisation across a range of scales—local, sub-regional, regional, sub-national, national and international—to connect with the evolving multi-layered governance structures of the UK political economy. Strategic multi-level organisation suggests the decentralisation of power, authority and resources within the labour movement—challenging the national and centralised legacy of its collective bargaining history—and a division of labour and set of priorities at the different scales to build the links between local and regional engagement and trade union renewal.

Keywords: Trade Unions; Trade Union Congress; Local and Regional development and governance; North East England (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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