Good news / Laughable article
Bea Campbell OBE is right about two things - it is good news that Frances O’Grady is going to be the new General Secretary of the TUC (though not just because of her gender), and sexism is rife in the trade union movement.
However to say that the TU movement was a ‘men’s movement’ until the very moment Frances was appointed, or that her appointed is an instant transformation in the nature of the movement is the sort of ludicrous dribbling you’d expect from the person who wrote this article - ‘Why I accepted my OBE’, and it demonstrates just how far she has moved from her Stalinist origins.
