3 December 2021 The new Reid Foundation paper was launched on 2 December 2021. Now that the COP26 circus has left Glasgow, the Jimmy Reid Foundation invites you to engage in thinking through how union… Read More »‘Beyond ‘Just Transition” paper now available
After the COP26 circus has left town, we invite you to engage in thinking through how the union and environmental movements can work together by learning from each other in a way that requires going… Read More »Launch of new Reid Foundation paper, ‘Beyond ‘Just Transition’’, 7pm. Thursday 2 December 2021
The video recording of Roz Foyer, STUC general secretary, giving the 2021 Jimmy Reid Foundation annual lecture on 7 October on a ‘People’s Recovery’ can be accessed by clicking on the link below:
The Jimmy Reid Foundation is delighted to announce that today, 8 October 2021, the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator (OSCR) granted Scottish Charitable Incorporated Status (SCIO) to the Jimmy Reid Foundation for the purpose… Read More »Scottish Charitable Incorporated Status (SCIO) granted
The People’s Recovery: The only way to build back better for a socially and environmentally just recovery The Foundation is delighted to announce that Roz Foyer, general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC),… Read More »Jimmy Reid Foundation 2021 annual lecture
Recording of the Jimmy Reid Foundation meeting critiquing the Scottish Government’s ‘Fair Work’ policy with Professor Gregor Gall and Roz Foyer, STUC general secretary, on Tues 17 August 2021 (chaired by Lynn Henderson, chair of… Read More »Recording of critique of Scottish Government’s ‘Fair Work’ policy meeting, 17 Aug 2021
The Jimmy Reid Foundation reached its 10th birthday on 10 August 2021. It was launched a year after the death of Jimmy Reid by the Scottish Left Review magazine which Jimmy founded. So far, the Foundation has… Read More »The Reid Foundation is now 10 years old – help sustain it for the next ten
The recording of the meeting for the on-line launch of the recent JRF paper by Brian Boyd, John Kelly and Henry Maitles (with EIS assistant secretary, Andrea Bradley as the discussant) is now available here.… Read More »Recording of ‘Liberal education in a neo-liberal world’ meeting of 7 June 2021 now available
Tonight, Monday 7 June, the Jimmy Reid Foundation organised a successful on-line launch meeting of its recent paper by Brian Boyd, John Kelly and Henry Maitles. EIS assistant secretary, Andrea Bradley, was the discussant and… Read More »Successful launch of ‘Liberal education in a neo-liberal world: re-culturing and recalibrating’
1 June 2021 Today, the Jimmy Reid Foundation publishes a critique of the Scottish Government’s ‘Fair Work’ policy. ‘Fair Work’ has been the flagship programme of the SNP Scottish Government on employment matters since 2016.… Read More »Critique of Scottish Government’s ‘Fair Work’ policy published