The Papers of Neil Kinnock

Papers, briefings and correspondence with representatives of the unions, particularly the GMB, National and Local Government Officers Association (NALGO), National Communications Union (NCU), National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Staffs Union (TASS), Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT), Union of Communication Workers (UCW) and Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW). Includes: briefing papers for a meeting with John Edmonds [General Secretary of the GMB] on the 1990 Party Conference, particularly OMOV (one man one vote) in the reselection of parliamentary candidates; briefing on devolution to regional government; text of an article by NK for the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, on the crisis in the steel industry and the closure of the Ravenscraig strip mill [Lanarkshire, Scotland]; briefing for and notes of a meeting with Alan Jenkinson, the new General Secretary of NALGO; briefing for a meeting with Tony Yung, new General Secretary of NCU; a letter from John Prescott on the National Union of Seamen (NUS) and a misleading report about the state of British shipping; briefing from UCATT for prospective parliamentary candidates; briefing for a meeting with Alan Tuffin [General Secretary of UCW] on the 1990 Party Conference; paper from the Industrial Strategy Group on the broadband network; draft article by NK for USDAW on the challenges of 1990; briefings for meetings with [David] Garfield Davies [General Secretary of USDAW] and Albert Williams [General Secretary of UCATT].