Ve hear a lot of talk about the necessity ofr unions ‘bringing — themselves up to date'. This advice comes not only big business sources, the TUC itself is very handy with advice to its component unions. But what about the TUC modernising itself? This question was posed in an article in the Economist commenting upon the decision of NALGO to affiliate to the TUC. The TUC's structure reflects the trade union movement of long, long agoe To quote from the article in question:
"..If the council seats were shared out equally between them each member of the council should represent 250,000 unionists. It does not work out that ways the seats are allocated according to industrial groups - 18 of them and a separate one for womeneeee” The article gave the figures and I have added the number of trade unionists represented by each councillor: