A few months ago, a colleague and I started a new website called Creative Unions. Both of us have worked for years in the trade union movement, as organisers and in campaigns and communications.
The thing that we noticed was that there was incredible variety in the professionalism of union campaigns, design and communications. While some [...]
The new year will bring around 15 new Organising Academy trainees working on placements in and around both the public and private sector. Organising workers in areas like postal services, teaching, students, civil services and telecoms.
“But aren’t these areas already unionised?” I hear you ask, the short answer being “Yes!”. But even these areas which are historically unionised have sufferered [...]
In response to my post below, a few people have asked me what unions can do to offer more support for interns.
This is, of course, a really good point. Because no matter how informed a young person might be entering an internship, without an organised workplace and back up from their union, they might still [...]
Irish unions are on strike today (25 November) against the government cuts in wages (on top of earlier cuts in pensions) that are designed to bridge the deficit caused by the global economic crisis. A quarter of a million public sector unions are on strike, making it bigger than any strike since the 1970s. Unions [...]
The TUC and Ruskin Council are pleased to invite you to attend the launch celebrating their new partnership at the Ruskin College site, Walton Street, Oxford, OX1 2HE on Friday 4th December 2009 from 1pm. All Organising Academy graduates are welcome to attend and join in the celebrations! Please RSVP to rhemstock@ruskin.ac.uk
TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, speaking on what trade unions want from a Copenhagen deal, and how the transition to a low carbon economy would benefit British workers. From the Government’s ACT ON COPENHAGEN website.
I recently had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Marshall Ganz the US organiser who (if you’ve never heard of him) designed the Camp Obama training sessions that played a significant role the successful mobilisation of volunteers during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign last year.
During my meeting, we discussed his belief that unions need to [...]
The ITUC and Sustainlabour just released this short video showing commitment of unions around the world to fight against climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen climate change conference.
Sustainlabor is an independent train union foundation that aims to bring trade unions into the climate change challenge. They have produced this jointly with the [...]
The Future Jobs Fund (FJF) is the most progressive jobs programme for more than a quarter of a century and unions and the TUC want to make it a success, for the employers who host FJF placements but primarily for the FJF workers themselves.
Unions can only do this effectively if we are geared up to recruiting and [...]
Taking the lead on our work engaging young people, I’m often invited to talk to groups of school and college students. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of addressing a group of media studies students at Middlesex University.
I’m always interested in the variety of different responses I get from these speaking events.
Yesterday, I’ll [...]
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