Bob Quinn discusses his goals as Minister for Education. He highlights the constraints placed on the department by Treasury and his support for the self-management of schools. He describes how the devolution of power was then reversed by the incoming Beattie government.
Tom Barton discusses his time as Minister for Employment, Training and Industrial Relations in the context of his experience as a trade unionist, and the need to have a thick skin as a politician.
Tom Barton discusses the SEQEB dispute, the role of the ETU, and the lengths to which the Trades and Labor Council went to get the strikers their jobs back. He outlines the detrimental effect on the union movement of the 1982 general strike, and attempts to redress this.
