It’s official. We’ve sold out. Of tickets, that is, for the Concert for Haiti next week, which Cuba Solidarity Campaign have organised for us. Five hundred people will be cramming into Congress House on Wednesday night to raise funds for Haitian trade unionists, but we can’t take any more. But there are still things you [...]
Just read the sad news that Howard Zinn, the author of the seminal ‘A People’s History of the United States’ has passed away.
I met Howard Zinn briefly five years ago, when he gave he led a seminar at the HTUP, and he was a genuine, inspiring bloke – a working class intellectual, who worked in a [...]
The actors who played them* have all been honoured with lifetime achievement awards by the US union SAG – the screen actors’ guild – in what the AFL-CIO almost certainly correctly describes as “the only nationally televised awards show of any kind that honors the work of union members”. Congratulations to all this year’s winners, and [...]
The recession has hit US unions, in the same way as it has in other developed nations. But while union membership has fallen faster in the private sector than employment, union density has risen in the public sector. And for the first time ever in the US there are now more trade unionists in the public [...]
News from the International Trade Union Confederation: in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, the ITUC launched a trade union appeal for humanitarian support for the victims in cooperation with its regional organisation for the Americas, TUCA. Funds raised under the appeal are primarily being used to supply humanitarian assistance to the ITUC’s Haitian affiliate, [...]
Nice piece in the Society section of today’s Guardian on the women behind the Grunwick strike. In particular the article flags up a new exhibition ‘Striking Women: Voices of South Asian Workers from Grunwick and Gate Gourmet.
The exhibition is at the Women’s Library, London E1 7NT and runs until March 31st.
One of the findings in the recently published survey of trade union Equality Reps was that 63 per cent of the Equality Reps surveyed who had no previous reps experience were women.
If my memory is correct similar findings are (or were) to be found in surveys of Union Learning Reps.
This has me wondering about whether [...]
Those of us thinking through worst case scenarios following the next general election would do well to look across the Irish Sea at the events taking place in the Irish Republic.
I had the pleasure of spending a couple of days last week with David Begg and Jack O’Connor of ICTU who did a brilliant job in [...]
This weekend, Iranian-Kurdish activist and teacher trade unionist Farzad Kamangar is facing the threat of imminent execution. Please add your name to the Education International protest, and ask friends and colleagues to do the same.
Trade unionists in Iran, like anyone else who objects to what the regime is doing there, are facing more and more [...]
Good discussion going on at the moment over at Unison Active blog on the skills needed by union organisers. Take a look.
http://unisonactive.blogspot.com/search/label/Organising
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