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Flexibility – the challenge for the union
Date: 30 April 2001
Flexibility – the challenge
for the union
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An Executive Council Statement to the 2001 Annual Delegate Meeting. This Statement is designed to look at what our members and their employers want and expect from flexible working.
Flexibility has been a Government and employer buzzword for the last 20 years or so and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Previous Tory Governments, the current Labour Government and legions of employers have joined together to promote flexibility and locate the flexible worker at the centre of labour market and employment practices in the late 20th and now the 21st century.
We're told the flexible workforce is the hallmark of any modern, successful economy. Labour flexibility is at the heart of Government policy and we're told that either deregulation or 'a light touch' on rights at work have delivered us the ideal 21st century workforce.
Workers have correspondingly been called on to be flexible in terms of their working time, their job content, their place of work, their careers and their learning and training needs.
The conventional, full-time permanent job based on a standard, weekday working day is increasingly a thing of the past for millions of workers.
Flexibility - the challenge for the union was correct at date of publication April 2001
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