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 [...]
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 TUC publishes guidance on workplace rights for migrant workers, which can help unions to organise them. They have recently been updated, and are available on the TUC website in:
Bulgarian
Czech
English
Estonian
French
Hungarian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Polish
Russian
Slovak
Spanish
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, [...]
On Tuesday I joined nearly 1oo union reps at an event organised by my colleagiues at the Wales TUC. It was a chance to re-launch the TUC’s Bargaining to Organise materials in Wales and also to hear directly from reps about the challenges that they face in securing sufficient time to support members and at [...]
I suppose you could regard Michael Gove’s speech on the relationship between trade unions – and Unite the union in particular – and the Labour party as an understandable bit of electioneering. But underneath the somewhat forced hysteria about Unite, the BA dispute and Charlie Whelan what he really seems to be saying (perhaps what [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Japanese trade unions have recorded their first year of growth since 1975, up by 0.4%. The growth was led by impressive rises in the unionisation of part-time workers (up 13.7% to 700,000) and workers in accommodation and food services (up 11.2%). There are just over 10 million union members in Japan, most of them in [...]
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