The militancy that governs the words and
actions of trade union leaders threatens to make the organisations «irrelevant», a former TUC economics chief warns today.
A
number of trade union leaders - including Unite boss Len McLuskey and Unison's Dave Prentis - also issued a statement backing Corbyn to continue as Labour leader.
This is a strong Conservative theme - a recent YouGov poll for Prospect magazine found that 41 per cent agreed that Ed Miliband «is in the
pocket of the trade union leaders.»
... Throughout this long period, we have been repeatedly frustrated by the gulf between the clear and present need, the burning desire of parents to have more control over the schooling of their children, on the one hand, and the adamant and effective
opposition of trade union leaders and educational administrators to any change that would in any way reduce their control of the educational system.