One of our keynote speakers at the Building Stronger Unions event - Stewart Acuff of the AFL-CIO - has written an interesting post for the ‘Huff Post’, one of the USA’s leading political blogs.
His last comment accurately sums up the thoughts of trade unionists around the world:
My mates and colleagues from all over the world made it [...]
Good article here on the Uni Global Union site about our 10th anniversary conference earlier this week.
Another perspective of the event can be found on John’s Labour Blog - thanks for the good review John!
Let us know if you see any more reviews or comments about the event and post the links in the comments section.
The website www.newunionism.net reports an interesting finding from the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitivness report - namey that high levels of unionism correlate positively with improved competitive performance. The top 5 countries for 2008 have an average union membership of 41.8%. The top 10 have an average of 37.6%. The top 20 have an average of 37.0%. [...]
Over 200 union organisers, officers, activists and reps joined us in London yesterday to help celebrate 10 years of the TUC Organising Academy at the ‘Building Stronger Unions’ event. We’ll be putting film footage of the day up on the Stronger Unions youtube channel over the next week or so, and we’ll circulating the results [...]
Ian Allinson of UNITE has dug out an interesting article here, reporting on Lib-Dem attempts to review facility time and facilities for union reps in Birmingham City Council.
Apparently some of the local councillors are unhappy that union facility time currently costs local taxpayers around £1.4m a year - which sounds a lot, but actually isn’t [...]
As someone who’s had to work in a call centre sitting under an ‘inspirational’ framed poster exhorting me to ‘Believe in Team Work’ I love the stuff that Despair.com do.
This one on blogging caught my eye!
This is post no.3 in a ’sort of series’ looking at examples of unions popping in places that you least expect them.
In my previous posts I mentioned union organising efforts in public schools and the Church- now comes the news that various ‘rawk’ legends from Radiohead to Pink Floyd have set up their very own union [...]
We’ve confirmed a few more speakers for the TUC’s ‘Building Stronger Unions’ conference on 14 October, including Jack Dromey, DGS of UNITE and Christine Hardacre, regional director, Community.
On top of the speakers, workshops, lunchtime theatre session, interactive electronic polling session and a chance for you to immortalise your thoughts on how best we can ‘Build Stronger [...]
On my way up to Darlington to spend the day with colleagues in the Northern TUC, reviewing the work they are doing on organising. The regional TUC has done some fantastic work in recent years, much of it focussed on community organising and reaching out to support and work with vulnerable workers.
Interesting (well sort of) facts about [...]
