STRONGER UNIONS

I was interested to read in the paper this week that Obama owns the internet when it comes to winning the election campaign. It seems that the use of this medium was due to the hostility of the US media to the centre left and hence the use of the internet in the US as [...]

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I’m off to Boston tomorrow, standing in for Paul Nowak taking this years Leading Change group over to the US leg of the programme.
We are being hosted by Elaine Bernard of the Harvard University Labor and Worklife programme and over the two days of the session will be treated to contributions from a great [...]

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In my job you get to travel quite a bit and visit numerous trade union premises.  One thing that has always struck me is just how ubiquitous the pictures and posters are that you find displayed on the walls of UK trade union offices(Spanish Civil War, Women Workers etc). 
The Northland Poster Collective is  an online gallery [...]

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A friend sent me this – very funny but making a serious point.

Send a personalised one to your friends in the States here.

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The TUC is pleased to announce the full list of TU Education Centres who will be Activist AcademyCentre’s of Organising and Recruitment Excellence (COREs) and also initial dates of Activist Academy programmes running at the participating centres – vist the TUC website Activist Academy page for a full list of CORE contacts and programme dates.
The [...]

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“The classic English gentleman abroad: It’s David Niven. It’s Stuart Grainger. It’s Nigel Havers. The look – Imperial Leisure. Offset that look with those four summer reliables – hat, cravat, summer spectacles and, for that touch of class, the Organising Academy Polo Shirt.”
(with apologies to Alan Partridge)
Are you a sartorially challenged union organiser, looking for [...]

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“Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
The above is [...]

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As regular readers of this blog (shout out to all 3 of you by the way!) will know, last week we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the TUC Organising Academy. Here’s a photo to prove it!
More seriously one of the things which has characterised the work of the Organising Academy is that we’ve always been [...]

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Wal-Mart that paragon of global corporate responsibility is at it again.
For the second time in three years Wal-Mart has shut a Canadian facility down because the workers had the temerity to organise a union. Rather than abide by the decision of the Quebec Labour Relations Board to impose a three-year collective agreement the company have decided [...]

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I was over in Dublin yesterday representing the TUC Organising team at an event organised by Union Learning Skillnet a network created by three Irish unions – IMPACT, TEEU and SIPTU – aimed at developing the skills of members in the workplace.  This particular conference looked at how this work could contribute towards efforts by [...]

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