Just a union you can believe in!
So goes the (pretty good I think) strap line of Equity’s new campaign to coincide with the forthcoming panto season. Equity is the UK union that organises artists in professional entertainment. This includes singers, actors, dancers, directors, stage managers, radio and TV presenters etc.
Today I’ve been doing an organising [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Are you going along to one of this year’s TUC Organising Academy Development Centres?
Are you wondering what exactly will happen during the Development Centre?
Do you have any questions that you’d welcome the opportunity to have answered before you arrive?
If you’ve answered YES to any of the above then the TUC’s Organising & Recruitment Team together [...]
In the next few weeks the TUC’s Organising Academy will start its recruitment process for new Academy organisers.
We are looking for committed and enthusiastic people who want to help union efforts to go out and organise the next generation of union members and activists. Applicants should ideally have a proven track record of organising for [...]
Ten years ago I was one of the first trainee organisers to join the TUC Organising Academy, working with BIFU the finance union. The union has gone (first to become part of UNIFI, then AMICUS and now UNITE) but the Organising Academy is still going strong
On October 14 the TUC is hosting an event to [...]
As part of the development of the training programme, we are piloting two new courses during week commencing 12th May. The course outlines will be available on the TUC website www.tuc.org.uk/organisation from Friday of this week. To register your interest for either Organising Negotiations or CAC Procedures, can you please complete and return [...]
