The TUC Lay Leadership Development Programme will provide senior lay union representatives (i.e. members of union National Executives) with a challenging and innovative package of training, discussion and support delivered over three 2-day modules. The core themes of the programme will be the way unions respond to key strategic and organisational challenges, the need to [...]
A new report commissioned by the TUC on the current nature and future of community engagement by trades unions in the UK is released today. The report, written as a result of a collaborative project involving the TUC, Goldsmiths and Darwin College, University of Cambridge finds that there is a compelling case to include community [...]
The Government’s cuts are already damaging jobs and services.
Much worse will come in October’s spending review.
Ministers tell us that there is no alternative. But the cuts won’t just hit vital services, they threaten economic recovery.
Coalition policies are not just about reducing the deficit, but undermining publicly accountable quality services.
Join unions, the TUC, teachers, pupils, parents [...]
On Tuesday, the TUC will launch a report on the nature of current and future community engagement by trades unions in the UK. Ahead of this, Christine Gibbons, an Oral Historian at Liverpool Museums tells the story of a remarkable example of community engagement and empowerment that took place in Croxteth, Liverpool in the early [...]
The recruitment process for entry into Year 13 of the TUC Organising Academy Trainee Organiser Programme will start in September.
As an Academy Organiser you will spend a tough, but rewarding year with a sponsoring union undergoing a comprehensive training programme, and applying your skills as an organiser in the workplace.
We are looking for people who [...]
Priti Patel, the new Conservative MP for Witham clearly has her finger on the nations pulse. How else to explain the 67 Parliamentary questions that she’s submitted on the costs to government departments of trade union facility time – the time away from work duties that union reps get so that they can help their colleagues [...]
Great poster here that just about sums up what being an organiser is all about. More posters like this can be purchased from the ‘Art for Social Justice’ site at www.rlmarts.com All posters feature the art work of Ricardo Levins Morales.
In the aftermath of a deeply ideological budget announced by a coalition government whose political centre of gravity appears to be firmly right of centre, over the coming months unions will be considering how they respond to policies that have a particular impact on their members and of course to October’s Comprehensive Spending Review which [...]
It seems that the Taxpayers Alliance now reserves the right to speak out about how any organisation spends its money even when that money doesn’t come via taxation; and if at the same time it can scratch its ideological itch and have a dig at unions, then all the better. How else to explain the [...]
The Taxpayers Alliance -the group that is NOT an alliance of ordinary tax payers is once again speaking up for..well themselves really.
Taking up the invitation recently extended by the government for suggestions from the public for laws they would like to see repealed, the Taxpayers Alliance has shown that it has its finger on the [...]
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