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
The recording of the third UCS work-in series of meetings (on the eve of the STUC Congress on 18 April 2021) is now available. The meeting was entitled: ‘We are not rats! From UCS to… Read More »Recording of ‘We are not rats! From UCS to BiFab and beyond – the struggle for decent work’ meeting, 18 April 2021
As featured as the main story on the front page of the Herald newspaper today (Monday 19 April 2020): The Jimmy Reid Foundation releases this new paper to coincide with the first day of the… Read More »New JRF paper: Liberal education in a neo-liberal world: re-culturing and recalibrating
The recording of the second in the series of UCS work-in 50th anniversary meetings from the Jimmy Reid Foundation called ‘Leadership and trade union struggles: lessons from Jimmy Reid and the UCS’ with Professor Alan… Read More »Recording of second UCS work-in anniversary meeting
The next meeting in the UCS work-in commemoration series of meetings, organised by the Jimmy Reid Foundation and supported by UNTE Scotland, is on the eve of the 2021 STUC Congress at 6pm on Sunday… Read More »‘We are not rats!’ From UCS to BiFab and beyond – the struggle for decent work, 6pm Sunday 18 April
The horrific – and often avoidable – impact of the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland on the lives of those in care (like older people and disabled people) has thrown into sharp relief the inadequacies of… Read More »New pamphlet from JRF & SWAN on need for a publicly-owned national care service