“We are facing a spring of discontent as yet another union flex their muscles and threaten to walk out.”
Eric Pickles, Conservative Party Chairman, March 2010
“Britain now faces Labour’s spring of discontent with militant unions threatening to bring our railways to a standstill as well. Strike action could leave the country facing a serious transport meltdown.”
Theresa [...]
On Tuesday I joined nearly 1oo union reps at an event organised by my colleagiues at the Wales TUC. It was a chance to re-launch the TUC’s Bargaining to Organise materials in Wales and also to hear directly from reps about the challenges that they face in securing sufficient time to support members and at [...]
As a second step of its youth campaign, the ITUC is relaunching its youth blog and is launching the campaign’s brochure.
The youth blog comes with a redesign, new functionalities such as Facebook and Twitter sharing as well as a special campaign section.
The brochure is a best practice guide on organising young people and is aimed [...]
Today the ITUC launched its youth campaign, with the release of this handy little video: Joe the Dog tries to change the world
Feel free to cut’n’paste to whatever social network sites you use.
Looking forward to getting the details of the campaign as the ITUC’s own youth officer, Phillipe Gousenberger, addresses the TUC Young Members Conference which [...]
I suppose you could regard Michael Gove’s speech on the relationship between trade unions – and Unite the union in particular – and the Labour party as an understandable bit of electioneering. But underneath the somewhat forced hysteria about Unite, the BA dispute and Charlie Whelan what he really seems to be saying (perhaps what [...]
is a question I get asked frequently. Here’s an example of the sort of work our trainees get involved in (although I must point out non-compliance with H&S found in this clip!)
Labourstart has produced a list of finalists from over 200 entries for this great competition.
Voting has begun to choose the first-ever global Labour Video of the Year.
The distinguished panel of judges have selected a shortlist of six films out of more than 200 submitted. They’ve found six extraordinary films.
Watching these very short videos will make you [...]
The North West TUC produces an audio magazine ‘Union Hour’ for union activists, organisers and officers based in the region. This month ‘Union Hour’ focuses exclusively on organising and features audio articles on amongst other things; resources for reps and activists, organising young members, organising case studies (incl. taxi drivers, retail workers, migrant workers and school support [...]
Temp staff in Asda supply chain win equal pay with union deal
A significant success for UNITE's organising efforts in the food processing sector
(tags: UNITE, organising)
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