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 [...]
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 [...]
Rather than go through EVERY single transaction I’ve, well transacted, over the last two days - here are some of the ‘highlights’ (I use the word ‘highlights’ very advisedly)
On-line shopping at Tesco - Tesco is one of those companies people love to hate…its 30% UK market share has seen it come under fire from groups [...]
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 [...]
I was interested to read in the paper this week that Obama owns the internet when it comes to winning the election campaign. It seems that the use of this medium was due to the hostility of the US media to the centre left and hence the use of the internet in the US as [...]
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 [...]
One of our keynote speakers at the Building Stronger Unions event - Stewart Acuff of the AFL-CIO - has written an interesting post for the ‘Huff Post’, one of the USA’s leading political blogs.
His last comment accurately sums up the thoughts of trade unionists around the world:
My mates and colleagues from all over the world made it [...]
