Labourstart Oscars – Finalists – Vote Now!

Labourstart has produced a list of finalists from over 200 entries for this great competition.
Voting has begun to choose the first-ever global Labour Video of the Year.
The distinguished panel of judges have selected a shortlist of six films out of more than 200 submitted.  They’ve found six extraordinary films.
Watching these very short videos will make you [...]

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links for 2010-03-05

Temp staff in Asda supply chain win equal pay with union deal
A significant success for UNITE's organising efforts in the food processing sector
(tags: UNITE, organising)

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Michael Foot

“It’s impossible to write the history of freedom in this country without telling how trade unions have contributed to it.”
Michael Foot, 1976

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Equality reps, a valuable cog in the wheel of trade union organising

Please do take a look and take some inspiration from this fabulous 60 second creation from Unison’s Equality Unit, promoting the role of Equality reps in the workplace. Diana Veitch of Unison as always has a wonderful imagination and creative mind, and her and Lucien along with an animator have produced this absolutely fabulous 60 second [...]

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Unions beyond the election

Over the next few months unions will understandably focused on the General Election. Labour Party affiliates will be busy mobilising people and resources to try and deliver a Labour victory; and unions more broadly will be working hard to ensure that the priorities of union members and their families are reflected in Party manifestos.
Whatever the [...]

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Save Hornsey Nursery

Max Watson of WLRI has made this excellent campaigning video. Max recently attended the TUC course Lights, Camera, Action, which helps to teach trade unionists how to make short films for youtube, for use in campaigning and organising work. This campaigning video has been produced by Max to help ‘Save Hornsey Road Nursery’, the last [...]

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Listen, Explore, Equalise, Elevate!

Past and present TUC Organising Academy Trainee Organisers will recognise the above slogan from their training – it’s a template we try and get organisers to use so that they get the most from conversations with members and workers.  Its a bit corny, but it does the trick in getting over the point that speaking [...]

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Sausage rolls brought to you by union organisers

Some really engaging discussions today at the GFTU’s seminar on organising young workers.
Met some great union reps and officers, some of  them from the bakers’ union BFAWU who are organising the often low paid, part time and largely female workforce at Gregg’s.  
Two young women in particular from Gregg’s described the problems facing organising in that sector [...]

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Fighting the corner for young workers

Its no secret that young people are having a bad time of it in the labour market right now.
Youth unemployment stands at record levels, demand for apprenticeships and places in higher education is outstripping supply and too many young workers find themselves in low paid, low skilled, vulnerable jobs in the sharp end of our [...]

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Unions responding to change

Had a great morning at the TUC, where unions gathered to look at the impacts of the Union Modernisation Fund over the last five years.
Change in any organisation can be a painful process but what struck me at the event today was the real energy and appetite there was for having a proper look at what [...]

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