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 [...]
TUC Organising Academy Project Worker
Fixed term until May 2011
Salary : £27,183 p.a
Do you have experience of TUC teaching and a sound knowledge of the trade union organising agenda? Want to work in a college with a century-long reputation for trade union studies?
Ruskin College is seeking to recruit a TUC Organising Academy Project Worker to [...]
I spent the early part of this week at our partner college, Ruskin College in Oxford with 15 Prospect reps who were on a development course that the TUC had put together with the union. The aim of the course was to give the reps a wider understanding of some the challenges that unions face and the strategies that are being developed [...]
On January 1st 2010 the revised AC AS Code of Practice on Time off for trade union duties and activities will come into effect. The revised code contains some important changes that all union reps and officers should be aware of and will want to ensure are included in their facilities agreements. The most significant revisions are in [...]
Previous posts on this blog have flagged up the work that the TUC is doing to support unions in organising Future Jobs Fund (FJF) workers. On Tuesday I attended a briefing for reps and officers in the South West on the FJF which included a discussion on the subs rates that unions might charge those FJF workers that [...]
Just a quick reminder that this summer school is taking place and that there are now only 2 places left, with organisers from a number of affiliates in the UK and also from Canada and USA joining us there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate around strategic campaigning in the current economic [...]
At long last the first of the short film clips from the ‘Building Stronger Unions’ event held at the TUC on October 14 are now on-line. You can watch them as they are added at the Stronger Unions YouTube channel. Here’s a bit of a taster – this is a clip of Marcin Hinz, a [...]
The first TUC Activist Academy courses are due to get underway over the next few weeks.
During January and February, courses will be starting in Birmingham (first session January 14 and 15), Ruskin College, Oxford (Jan 15 and 16), Stowe College, Glasgow (January 26 and 27), Leeds (Jan 28, 29 and 30), Plymouth (Feb 9 and [...]
The TUC is pleased to announce the full list of TU Education Centres who will be Activist AcademyCentre’s of Organising and Recruitment Excellence (COREs) and also initial dates of Activist Academy programmes running at the participating centres – vist the TUC website Activist Academy page for a full list of CORE contacts and programme dates.
The [...]
“The classic English gentleman abroad: It’s David Niven. It’s Stuart Grainger. It’s Nigel Havers. The look – Imperial Leisure. Offset that look with those four summer reliables – hat, cravat, summer spectacles and, for that touch of class, the Organising Academy Polo Shirt.”
(with apologies to Alan Partridge)
Are you a sartorially challenged union organiser, looking for [...]
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