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A storming success….now make your vote count

Well it’s been another fantastic year for the TUC 60 Second Ad Contest.  With 33 fabulous entries, it’s a storming success. We have adverts galvanised by robots, involving stunts in swimming pools, adverts using vintage footage or inspired by nature, adverts that are funny or emotive, or aroused by music, but all expressing their passion [...]

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Final Call for entries

 This is the final call for entries for the TUC 60 Second Ad Contest. Entries must be received by midnight on Monday (GMT Midnight 9th August 2010).
As you already know, the TUC 60 Second Ad Contest is a competition open to everyone. Your challenge is to make a short 60 second ad that illustrates the [...]

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2 weeks left to send in your winning ads

 There are just 2 weeks left to send in your entries to the TUC 60 second Ad contest. We have received some great entries so far, the competition is absolutely open to everyone, and there are some great prizes to be won. So, if you think that you have a great idea that encourages people [...]

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Four weeks to send in your entries TUC 60 second ad contest

A gentle nudge to remind you all that you have just less than four weeks (9th August) to send in your ads, it’s all to play for, so don’t be shy! There is a prize for the first ad received by the end of each week, so, for this week, if we receive your ad [...]

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Don’t miss – Advertising workshop – Leading experts

For those who are thinking about entering the TUC 60 Second Ad Contest, we are running a FREE ‘Advertising Workshop’ with leading experts from the industry on Friday 9th July 2010, to get you started. This promises to be very extensive and interesting. The workshop will be run by leading experts Miriam Sorrentino (Lecturer, advertising and [...]

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Trailer for the fantastic new film ‘Made in Dagenham’

 The trailer has been launched for the new British film ‘Made in Dagenham’ based on the true story of a group of female machinists in a Dagenham car plant who protested for equal pay in 1968.
Their campaign, which made headlines prior to the introduction of the Equal Pay Act in 1970, included organising a three-week strike [...]

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The TUC 60 Second Ad contest is back…..

It’s been a year since the last contest…and we’re back again…read on to find out more….
Take up the TUC challenge to make a short advert about trade unions and win a prize.
Your challenge is to make an ad for the TUC that encourages people to join a trade union. In the current climate, people need trade [...]

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2010 Alternative rich list

 The alternative rich list awards promoted here helped me to recall the great piece of research that the TUC launched last year, outlining survey results that demonstrated what great citizens our 200,000 trade union activists are, both within the workplace but also outside of the workplace. Union reps make good citizens. I saw this nomination [...]

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Is the UK heading for a summer of discontent?

An interesting article here from xpertHR, one to share….
Recent events show there is no doubt that the unions remain a force to be reckoned with. The threat of national strike action already looms in significant parts of the private sector – this week BA workers went on strike in the first of three five-day stoppages by [...]

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Labourstart Oscars – Finalists – Vote Now!

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 [...]

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