Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Workers on boards: red herring from the 1970s or useful negotiating card?

Also in Any Other Business: beware the revenge of clubland, Chancellor; blame bankers for London property prices

issue 03 December 2016

‘We’re going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but workers as well,’ Theresa May declared in July. ‘I can categorically tell you that this is not about… the direct appointment of workers or trade union representatives on boards,’ she corrected herself in her CBI speech last month.

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