The UCS work in: a celebration and commemoration 50 years on

On the 50th anniversary of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) workin, the Jimmy Reid Foundation is holding this meeting to celebrate and commemorate one of the most successful campaigns of the postwar period. The workin of 19711972 humbled the Heath Conservative government and represented a new industrial tactic without precedence. Jimmy Reid played a leading role in this. Professor John Foster, coauthor of the seminal study on the workin, will explain its success. He will be joined by UCS workin veteran, James Cloughley, in doing so. Stella Rooney of UNITE Scotland Young Members and Morgan Horn, a UNITE Scotland organiser, will discuss what the workin means to them as leaders of a younger generation of union activists.