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 [...]
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 [...]
The agenda is taking shape for the TUC’s big post election event on future union Campaigning, Organisation, Representation and Education – STRONGER UNIONS 2010 to be held at Congress House on July 5th.
Confirmed speakers are Frances O’Grady (TUC Deputy General Secretary), Sally Hunt (UCU General Secretary), Dave Prentis (Unison General Secretary) Mehdi Hasan (Senior Editor, [...]
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 [...]
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