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 [...]
It seems that no campaign is complete these days without someone setting up the ubiquitous accompanying Facebook group. Some of these have been really successful, some really haven’t. I’m a big fan of anything that can help unions organising but I think there are a couple of potential pitfalls in using Facebook so liberally.
The first is that Facebook [...]
One of the (many, many) privileges I have in this job is getting to spend time with full time officers and staff who operate at the front line supporting union members, activists and leaders in their efforts organising workers to negotiate fairer pay, terms and conditions with employers.
I spent most of last week in Earls [...]
When I was a CPSA/PCS activist in the late 80s/1990s, for a period of time it seemed that I was never out of the Merseyside Trade Union Community Unemployed Resource Centre, a building that dominated (and still does) the top half of Hardman Street in Liverpool.
I was there for training (it housed the city’s TU [...]
Here’s my dilemma…
Yesterday we ran out of coffee in the office (well we ran out the proper stuff, I don’t count decaffeinated as coffee in the same way that Kaliber is not a lager), so I was forced to go out to a local coffee shop for my daily fix.
The nearest,and frankly best, coffee shop to [...]
