Heather Connolly
Associate Professor of Employment Relations, School of Business, University of Leicester
Macron’s railway reforms: the ultimate test for French trade unionism
Heather Connolly - 19 April 2018Railway trade unions have begun three months of rolling strikes from April-June 2018 against reforms to their employment rights. The outcome of this dispute will be decisive for the government and its ability to make further reforms, and for the very future of the French trade union movement
Macron’s labour reforms are a major test for France’s trade unions
Heather Connolly - 13 November 2017President Macron’s extensive labour reforms are part of a programme of state-led liberalization which will shift the balance of power towards employers and test trade union strength and unity
Labour struggles and acts of physical and symbolic violence
Heather Connolly - 09 January 2017The ‘shirt ripping’ Air France trial highlights the usefulness of Bourdieu’s analysis to understanding conflicts within financialised capitalism
Resisting Labour Reforms in France
Heather Connolly - 16 June 2016The current industrial action will test the ‘reactionary radicalism’ of French unions and the Government’s ability to introduce reforms
Social exclusion and labour rights in the banlieues of Paris: Part II
Heather Connolly - 14 April 2016Trade union support for undocumented migrant workers is taking place in an atmosphere of growing stigmatisation and social tension
Failures and fiascos in public sector outsourcing: will governments never learn?
Heather Connolly - 09 March 2016A review of What a Waste: Outsourcing and how it goes wrong
Social exclusion and labour rights in the banlieues of Paris
Heather Connolly - 16 December 2015Trade unions can support the integration of migrants and minorities in France and must do so more actively in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks