The Structure Of The Trade Union Movement

Abstract

"Structure, particularly in the trade union movement, is a function of purpose." This point was made strongly by Mr. George Woodcock, the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, when he spoke at the 1962 Congress on a successful motion, moved by the Union of Post Office Workers, urging that the British trade union movement should adapt its structure to modern conditions. The motion instructed the General Council of the T.U.C. to examine and report on the possibility of reorganizing the structure both of the T.U.C. and of the British trade union movement.