Chapter 3

The politics of employment relations

The best source of information on the web about European Union developments as they affect employment relations is the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO). Follow the links to EU-level developments:
www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/

The official website of the European Union is also a good source of information. Follow the link to the section on ‘employment and social affairs’. There is also a link from there to the relevant web pages of the European Commission, allowing you to obtain information about developments in the areas of social dialogue and EU labour law:
www.europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

The European-level social partners all have websites:
www.etuc.org/
www.unice.org/
www.ceep.org/

For further information about the GMB union, the FBU, and ASLEF, go to their respective websites. There you will find links to their current campaigns, and also any news developments:
www.gmb.org.uk/
www.fbu.org.uk/
www.aslef.org.uk/

For further information about the relationship between the Labour party and the unions in Britain, go to the websites belonging to the Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO). There are links to Labour-affiliated unions, and you can access further details of the ‘Warwick Agreement’:
www.labour.org.uk/tuloindex
www.unionstogether.org.uk/

Details of the Socialist Workers Party’s political campaigns and ideological positions can be found on the pages of its website. Its newspaper, Socialist Worker, which is a source of information on industrial disputes, can be accessed via the web:
www.swp.org.uk/
www.socialistworker.co.uk/

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