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About the research

This blog is reporting the latest information on the current research into changes in trade union membership in the UK between 2001-2020 undertaken by the author.

In this research we are using data from the October-December Labour Force Surveys (LFS) for the years 2001-2020. The October-December LFS is the only quarter where the questions on trade union membership are asked. Prior to 2001 some questions we are using in our ongoing reseach were not asked, this is why the study is limited to those years.

About the author

Roger Sealey – The Doc – is a retired transport researcher who worked for the Transport and General Workers’ Union – now Unite the Union.

Post School Education

He studied at Ruskin College Oxford between 1974 and 1976, and was awarded a Ruskin College Diploma in Labour Studies.

His first degree was in Economics and Accounting and Finance from the then Oxford Polytechnic, now Oxford Brookes University. He has PhD in economics, from the Oxford Brookes University, which was on privatisation and deregulation of the UK bus and coach industry, and the UK port industry. The dissertation can be down loaded in pdf format from the British Library ethos site – see: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289151.

Other Publications

Sealey Roger (Autumn 2010) Logistics Workers and global logistics: the heavy lifters of globalisation. Work organisation labour & globalisation Volume 4, Number 2 pp 25-38.

Langridge, R, Sealey, R. (2000). CONTESTABILITY IN THE UK BUS INDUSTRY? THE NATIONAL BUS COMPANY, AND THE “TILLING MARK II” EFFECT. Transport Policy, Volume 7, Issue 2, p. 1

Research interests

Labour market, Transport economics – especially logistics.