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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Awkward Squad.
		In military language means recruits not yet fitted to take their place in the regimental line.
		A squad is a troop or company of soldiers under a sergeant.
		A squadron of cavalry is the unit of a regiment.
	www.bartleby.com /81/1125.html (106 words)

	Socialism Today - How awkward are the ‘awkward squad’?
		In particular it does not address the sort of leadership that most of the ‘awkward squad’ have given so far where, industrially and politically, they have shown themselves limited and unable to develop the right programme and organisation to take the union movement forward.
		There is a wealth of anecdotal information here about the current state of the unions and their new leaders, with facts and figures about the state of union organisation at shopfloor level and revealing insights into the mood at work and the level of combativity of the working class.
		The jury is still out, however, about the ability of the ‘awkward squad’ as a collective trend to shape a new agenda in the heat of bitter anti-worker attacks by the bosses.
	www.socialismtoday.org /80/awkward.html (3545 words)

	Awkward Squad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Awkward Squad is a term that came into common currency in the United Kingdom in 2002/2003 to describe what was perceived as a new wave of left-wing trade union leaders.
		They have also taken up a wider, left-wing internationalist political agenda, by, for example, speaking out against the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and in support of the Palestinians' struggle against Israel.
		Although its members mostly still support the Labour Party (as opposed to the Labour government), certain Awkward Squad members also support the Respect Coalition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Awkward_Squad (214 words)

	Socialist Review
		For the so called awkward squad of union leaders this is going to be a major test.
		It's going to be a long, hard fight to get the major unions to democratise their funds, and the majority of the awkward squad aren't going to make that job any easier.
		This does not mean socialists should abandon the unions to the bureaucracy or treat the awkward squad in the same way as the Blairites.
	www.socialistreview.org.uk /article.php?articlenumber=9010 (2307 words)

	'Awkward Squad' Gains Another Member :: The Socialist 7 June 2003
		TONY WOODLEY'S victory as general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) is a big defeat for Tony Blair and the Blairites in the trade unions.
		The election of left trade union leaders, the so called "awkward squad", is an indication of the changes taking place on the shop floor and in the unions.
		For too long control freakery has ruled but if he is to be able to deliver he will need a general executive council that will work with him instead of the right-wing clique dominating it.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2003/303/p2.htm (861 words)

	The Awkward Squad
		Because he is a genuine member of the awkward squad, Mick was suspended from his position on false charges.
		While the Irish Trade Union movement does not yet have the equivalent of Britain’s Awkward Squad, there are hopeful signs out there of the beginning of a fight back against over 16 years of social partnership and collaboration with a right wing neo-liberal agenda.
		Joe Moore, in his article on The Awkward Squad, provides a brief summary of the development of the British union movement since the rise of Thatcherism.
	www.socialistdemocracy.org /RecentArticles/RecentTheAwkwardSquad.html (2762 words)

	Tonight - Take cover. It's the awkward squad...
		In the three-day Boot Camp operation, contestants, who have been divided into three squads of "soldiers", have the chance to get one up on the other players during three missions: an exercise challenge, mental task and obstacle course.
		Squad 2 consists of Stefan, Warona and Gaetano.
		And Sammi, Bayo and Cherise are Squad 3.
	www.tonight.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=433&fArticleId=193765 (637 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Left vows to reclaim Labour
		Tony Blair is facing his biggest internal challenge since being elected Labour leader nine years ago, with leftwing MPs and trade union "awkward squad" leaders having privately agreed to produce an "alternative manifesto".
		Mick Rix, general secretary of the Aslef train drivers' union, and convener of the awkward squad, said yesterday: "This is about working within and building up, rather than working away from, the Labour party.
		A representative of the awkward squad is to attend the weekly meeting of campaign group MPs every Wednesday evening, and an MP will be invited to attend the monthly dinners of the awkward squad.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,991961,00.html (592 words)

	Int. Socialist Voice (01-03-04) - Review: A New Labour Nightmare by Andrew Murray
		A New Labour Nightmare clearly reveals that the election of the left union leaders - collectively known as the ‘awkward squad’ - is only the first stage of a process of a regeneration and rebuilding of the trade unions as instruments of working-class struggle.
		But, ultimately, the book only does what new AMICUS leader Derek Simpson sees as being the job of the awkward squad - "to ask the awkward questions" - rather than answer the big ‘awkward questions’ that their elections have raised.
		Although Murray’s book correctly outlines the new difficulties facing union organisers today that were not present in the 1950s and 1960s, it does not deal with the one big test that the awkward squad faced before the book was published - the fire-fighters’ strike.
	www.socialistparty.net /pub/pages/intr01-03-04/7.htm (3547 words)

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		What this watershed event in pop culture had to do with the men who were to make up the Awkward Squad was not altogether obvious, except to the excessively subtle minds of certain Agency mandarins who were fond of intellectual jests.
		And the head of the Awkward Squad, a blond Mississippian with ‘Navy’ stamped all over him, was in the District-area office he so detested, in a faceless office building in Vienna, Virginia, precisely because it was time, once again, for theory to go to the wall.
		Of course he’d endured some taunts, in his awkward adolescence, but those were meaningless: name-calling that the callers themselves knew nothing about, using what were for them words at once alien to their understanding, and mere general terms of abuse.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/bbsrps/slashausmartpartone.html (4567 words)

	Marshfield News Herald - When Awkward Squad acts up, fun comes in unscripted forms Impro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comedy comes easily when the Awkward Squad, Marshfield's student-improvisational troupe, meets to practice their specialized form of acting.
		Ultimately, the Awkward Squad plans to have public performances, possibly as early as April Fools Day, said Seubert, who added he also plans to organize a similar group for adults.
		For more information about the Awkward Squad, call Seubert at 384-5184 or visit the Web site, http://awkwardsquad.tripod.com.
	www.wisinfo.com /newsherald/mnhlocal/285212924532393.shtml (482 words)

	Reading Review book review - Lifter by Crawford Kilian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rick is part of the Awkward Squad, a collection of smart kids at the school.
		The teacher for the Awkward Squad is John Gibbs, an ex-football player who was hurt in the pros.
		Another student in the Awkward Squad is writing a report on UFO.
	www.readingreview.com /lifter.html (799 words)

	Awkward squad\|8Nov03\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		THE RISE of the awkward squad of left wing trade union leaders has transformed the leadership of most trade unions in Britain.
		In a new pamphlet called The Awkward Squad, New Labour and the Rank and File, Martin Smith, an industrial organiser for Socialist Worker, charts this phenomenon.
		He asks what attitude socialists should have to union elections and discusses the limits of the awkward squad.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=2247 (146 words)

	Weekly Worker 483 Thursday June 5 2003
		In a bad week for Tony Blair the Transport and General Workers Union delivered more bad news by electing self-confessed “fully paid-up member of the awkward squad” Tony Woodley as its general secretary.
		Having mercilessly engineered a head-on confrontation with the firefighters, Blair sought to emasculate Andy Gilchrist, a leading ‘awkward squad’ member, and teach the rank and file a lesson.
		However, he has also said he is likely to have more contact with Downing Street than other members of the awkward squad - and is known to have worked closely with ministers in the past.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/483/tgwu.html (1213 words)

	Unions
		There is a very simple explanation for this, which is that during virtually the entire decade of the 1990s official policy at the TUC and in most of the major unions was to avoid strike action wherever possible and to try to rebuild union membership and influence through partnership deals with employers.
		Resistance to these policies is what has fuelled the rise of the awkward squad, alongside the wider currents of the anti-globalisation and anti-war movements.
		Apart from the psychological scars on just about anybody now in their forties or fifties (including most of the awkward squad) this also means working out how to deal with the legal straitjacket imposed on the unions by Thatcher and continued by Blair.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr279/walrus.htm (1742 words)

	[A-List] UK labour movement: another left turn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A "moderate" group linked to the ousted leader Barry Reamsbottom was cut from 28 to nine members on the 43-seat body as a "democracy coalition", dominated by Mr Serwotka's camp, took the other 34.
		The result will dismay ministers and senior civil servants, and leave Mr Serwotka, a member of the TUC "awkward squad", able to push through his agenda.
		Mr Woodley and other "awkward squad" union leaders will seek to agree a joint programme with leftwing MPs and constituency activists at a "reclaim our party" conference tomorrow in London.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-July/026980.html (375 words)

	The Awkward Squad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Awkward Squad has a message for Knowles; Take your politically correct junk and stick it where where the sun don't shine.
		The Awkward Squad calls a spade a spade — and won’t be told what it can and cannot say.
		All content publised on this site is the sole property of The Awkward Squad and may not be used without permission.
	www.theawkwardsquad.com (1079 words)

	Organise the "awkward squad"! \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those unions would spiral off into "non-political" or "pick-and-mix" trade-unionism - the direction sketched in a recent pamphlet by CWU general secretary Billy Hayes, one of the so-called "awkward squad" of left trade union leaders, which advocates unions "engaging with" the Lib Dems, Scottish Nationalists, and Plaid Cymru.
		Whether the phrase "Labour Representation Committee" will catch on or not, socialists should be arguing for the trade-union "awkward squad" to get together, to organise links down to local and grass-roots level, and make itself an organised, consistently-campaigning force in the labour movement, together with those Labour MPs and constituency activists willing to challenge Blair.
		We still need the Socialist Alliance: we cannot afford to wait until the trade unions move, or slow down the tempo of socialist political and electoral activity to the pace of the mixed bag of "awkward squad" trade-union leaders.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/346 (1059 words)

	Books \| The awkward squad
		Kate Fox tells how awkwardness and hypocrisy rule a nation in Watching the English.
		She holds this congenital awkwardness responsible for everything from our "obsession with privacy" to our celebrated courtesy, famous reserve and infinite capacity for embarrassment.
		Fox's curiosity about English behaviour, which she attempts to reduce, in this prodigously long investigation, into key constituent parts, is matched only by her regret that we are not a more free and easy nationality.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4976945-110738,00.html (636 words)

	Art of the States: Fresnel Lens Ø7: An Awkward Squad
		These works should be understood not as translations of systems from one frame of reference to another but as the rendering visible (or in the case of Fresnel Lens Ø7: An Awkward Squad, audible) the interaction between differing scales of periodicity.
		For a listener this becomes an opportunity to experience the interaction between a glacial, geologic frame of time with a more commonly experienced human frame of attention present, providing a ground from which to observe this interaction.
		"The title refers to the type of lens on the lighthouse at Point Reyes National Seashore, and the 'awkward squad' is the name given to a group of pelagic cormorants, but carries with it the connotation of stumbling movement.
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=195 (1067 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 2 Nov 1995
		I remember at least one occasion during the last Labour Government when someone allegedly from the awkward squad came first in the ballot and there were frantic negotiations and deals struck between the Whips as to what motion that individual would table.
		It comes as a great shock to me to be called one of the awkward squad when, as hon.
		I have been here a very long time and I think it patronising to suggest that those of us who object to some of these changes do so merely because we are used to the old ways and have nothing useful to contribute.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-11-02/Debate-4.html (7405 words)

	Socialism Today - The rise of the unions’ awkward squad
		This summer’s election victory of Tony Woodley as the new general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union has consolidated the position in the trade union movement as a whole of the new ‘awkward squad’ union leaders.
		The objective situation in Britain and the mood of the working class mean that even those union leaders who were not considered on the left of the unions have been characterised as part of the ‘awkward squad’.
		One such leader is Kevin Curran, the new general secretary of the GMB general workers’ union, who was not seen as the candidate of the left but whose victory has resulted in him playing this role.
	www.socialismtoday.org /77/unions.html (2503 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Sport - England's awkward squad unlikely to have a field day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The squad named last Saturday is the latest work in progress and yet, rather than looking progressive, it looks tired.
		Whether this squad will be strong enough to win matches though is questionable.
		New Zealand may have lost a warm-up match against Derbyshire, be depleted with injuries and demoralised through being whitewashed in the test matches, but they are a well-schooled outfit.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=699672004 (982 words)

	Tackling the Awkward Squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tackling the Awkward Squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell (2000)
		Abstract: Functional programming may be beautiful, but to write real applications we must grapple with awkward real-world issues: input/output, robustness, concurrency, and interfacing to programs written in other languages.
		49.5%: Tackling the Awkward Squad: monadic input/output, concurrency..
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /329871.html (640 words)

	The Awkward Squad and the situation in the Unions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Awkward* Squad* and the situation in the Unions
		Andy Gilchrist was supposedly a member of the “awkward squad” yet played an ignominious role in delivering a big defeat to the FBU members.
		From Euston Square underground station in the Euston Rd, you turn into Gower St, take the first left and ULU is on the corner of Malet street.
	www.labournet.net /events/0401/solid1.html (490 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| The awkward squad
		We had no choice but to make a formal complaint on the grounds that the wheelchair they prescribed didn't meet our daughter's clinical needs.
		We were seen as an awkward, lippy family wanting more than we were entitled to.
		Six weeks later, the trust's chief executive wrote, "the concerns you raised have been investigated".
	society.guardian.co.uk /nhsperformance/story/0,8150,1437969,00.html (639 words)

	America's Awkward Squad Finds Allies as Washington Prepares for Peace Protests
		They are politically fireproof: Mr Bonior is not running again, and Mr McDermott has a safe seat in liberal Seattle.
		But they and other hardcore members of the awkward squad report a surprising amount of support for their stand even in less promising parts of the country.
		Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat congresswoman from Ohio, said she was buoyed up by the response of voters.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0927-05.htm (1221 words)

	Proud To Be Awkward Says Union Chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In his opening speech to the Union's annual delegate conference in Blackpool today, Mark Serwotka general secretary will tackle critics of the awkward squad head on and criticise the government for ditching pragmatism in the delivery of public services for an ideology of privatisation.
		On being dubbed a member of the awkward squad he will say: “Yes I’m awkward.
		If being awkward is about putting the interests of members first, of telling it like it is, challenging injustice, seeking the truth and putting public services before profit then I’m definitely proud to be awkward.
	www.pcs.org.uk /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=884669 (369 words)

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