Five discussions on questions facing trade unionists today
Len Downing
A member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and a convenor of shop stewards in a Midland rubber factory
Frank McDonagh
A member of the National Committee of the engineering section of the Transport and General Workers' Union, who works in a Coventry motor factory
Asa Briggs
Professor of Modern History in the University of Leeds, formerly Reader in recent Social and Economic History in the University of Oxford
Changes in organisation and in methods constantly give industry new problems to solve. Until fresh principles are agreed and established, these problems tend to recur again and again as causes of industrial unrest.
In each of the programmes of this series, two trade unionists and an economic historian discuss one of the principles which has been at stake in recent industrial disputes.
Asa Briggs writes on page 5
Next Wednesday - Redundancy