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 [...]
As regular readers of this blog (shout out to all 3 of you by the way!) will know, last week we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the TUC Organising Academy. Here’s a photo to prove it!
More seriously one of the things which has characterised the work of the Organising Academy is that we’ve always been [...]
Good article here on the Uni Global Union site about our 10th anniversary conference earlier this week.
Another perspective of the event can be found on John’s Labour Blog - thanks for the good review John!
Let us know if you see any more reviews or comments about the event and post the links in the comments section.
Over 200 union organisers, officers, activists and reps joined us in London yesterday to help celebrate 10 years of the TUC Organising Academy at the ‘Building Stronger Unions’ event. We’ll be putting film footage of the day up on the Stronger Unions youtube channel over the next week or so, and we’ll circulating the results [...]
With the Year 10 graduation well and truly celebrated last Tuesday, it was time to welcome in the Year 11 Academy Organisers
Back Row left to right: Neil Singh (CWU) Richard Edwards (PCS) Sam Harrison (NASUWT) Robert Goddard (Wales TUC) Pavel Krajca (CWU)
Middle Row left to right: Joanna Sinclair (EIS) Sarah Connolly (CWU) Kath Clarke (NASUWT) [...]
Last night, along with Organising Academy Director Liz Blackshaw and other colleagues from the Organising & Recruitment team, I was at the graduation ceremony for the Organising Academy class of 2008. You can see more pictures from the event here.
Heres a good article in Tribune by Brendan Barber - he’s my boss - assessing union organising efforts over the last 10 years.
While he rightly acknowledges that external factors such as new union recognition legislation and (until recently) rising employment have helped unions stabilise membership he also points out that, ‘new laws and increased employment [...]
Their are over 200,000 trade union reps and activists in the UK and for the members in the workplaces in which they are active it is they, not union General Secretarys or full-time officers who are the face of the union. Reps and the work that they do are vital to both the interests of their members [...]
