Care After COVID: Constructing an adult social care service fit for purpose for society in Scotland
Most now agree that the private sector model of providing care is badly broken and needs to be replaced. The questions are ‘with what?’, ‘what form should it take?’, and ‘how do we go about doing this?’. In this new Jimmy Reid Foundation paper, the salient issues are laid out and a suggestion is made… Read More »Care After COVID: Constructing an adult social care service fit for purpose for society in Scotland October 21, 2020 Read more…Building Stronger Communities
Today, 17 August 2020, the Jimmy Reid Foundation releases a new report called ‘Building stronger communities’ by Dave Watson. Building upon his earlier papers for the Jimmy Reid Foundation, in this new paper, he argues the pandemic has highlighted the importance of strong communities for supporting each other despite communities of place having been undermined… Read More »Building Stronger Communities August 17, 2020 Read more…Successful launch of Jimmy Reid biography at UNITE Scotland offices, 25 Oct 2019
The Jimmy Reid Foundation, in association with UNITE Scotland (as the successor union to the engineering union of Jimmy Reid’s time), launched the new and definitive biography of Jimmy Reid on Friday 25 October at UNITE Scotland’s Glasgow offices. The biography, with the cooperation of the Reid family, has been written by Alan McKinlay and… Read More »Successful launch of Jimmy Reid biography at UNITE Scotland offices, 25 Oct 2019 October 25, 2019 Read more…
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- Recording of second UCS work-in anniversary meeting
- ‘We are not rats!’ From UCS to BiFab and beyond – the struggle for decent work, 6pm Sunday 18 April
- New pamphlet from JRF & SWAN on need for a publicly-owned national care service
- JRF submission to the Independent Human Rights Act Review’s call for evidence
- Leadership and union struggles: lessons from Jimmy Reid and the UCS work-in, Thurs 25 March 7pm
- Recording of 50th anniversary meeting on UCS work-in (1971-1972)

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