How to bring democracy and participation to the trade unions

Although only 12 pages in total length, this latest publication of Aims represents a major achievement, even some sort of milestone. Over the past two years there has been a spate of legislation, a lot of it insisted upon by the trade unions as the price of their support for the Labour Government, which has significantly changed the balance of power in society in general and in industry in particular. There is a large body of opinion which holds that this change in the balance of power has gone so far as to militate against the public interest, even, in some cases, against the interests of the trade union members themselves.