Alice Martin × Communication Workers Union
Summary
Alice Martin and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are connected through collaborative work on shorter working week advocacy and research. In Source 1 (‘The New Economy Starter Pack’), Alice Martin authored a chapter titled ‘The Future of Unions: Rebuilding Collective Power’, while Dave Ward (CWU) contributed a separate chapter ‘A Future for Workers: A Word from the CWU’, indicating they were contributors to the same publication developed in conjunction with Autonomy. In Source 2 (NEF press release, March 2019), the CWU is listed among the unions partnering with the New Economics Foundation — where Alice Martin served as Head of Work and Pay — to launch a programme of work on achieving a shorter working week in the UK: ‘Alongside policy-makers, civil society organisations, businesses and unions (CSEU, CWU, TUC and Unite), NEF is launching a programme of work to flesh out a framework for how a shorter working week could be achieved in the UK.’ In Source 3, the NEF report ‘Making Up for Lost Time’ (May 2020), co-authored by Alice Martin, acknowledges CWU representatives Tony Couch and Andrew Towers in its acknowledgements section, indicating that CWU staff were interviewed or provided guidance for research that Alice Martin co-authored.
Provenance
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