Chairman of the Labour Party (UK) the role has a larger portfolio for organising election campaigning under Jeremy Corbyn, working alongside the Co-National Campaign Coordinator, Andrew Gwynne. From 2007 to 2017, it was held concurrently by the party's Deputy Leader. The Labour Party is currently chaired by Ian Lavery, who was appointed following the 2017 general election. Chairman of the Labour Party (UK) The Chairman of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom is responsible for party administration, overseeing the General election campaigns of the Labour Party. When the Labour Party are in government, the Chairman is usually a member of the Cabinet holding a sinecure
History of trade unions in the United Kingdom long avoided. More than 6,000 printing workers went on strike in 1986 in the "Wapping dispute", for what they and their union saw as "unacceptable" terms of employment for jobs at "The Sun" newspaper's new HQ in Wapping. They too lost. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) had long been one of the strongest labour unions. Its strikes had toppled the Heath government in the 1970s- the miners were successful in their 1984-1985 strike they were not. A strike was called by NUM leader Arthur Scargill in protest against proposed pit closures. The miners, however, were fighting not just for