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Simon Sapper

Simon Sapper is National Officer with the Communication Workers Union. He is responsible for CWU’s relations with other unions, CWU Youth, the National Discipline Committee, General Policy Committee, strategy delivery, project management, field development and initiatives and CWU union awards. He also represents the union on/to a number of outside bodies including Liberty and Unions21. Outside of the CWU, Simon is Press Complaints Commissioner, and Chair of the Standards Committee of the local authority where he lives.

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    Together: Union organising lessons from New Zealand

    Helen Kelly speaks at a Port of Auckland union rally. Photo by Maritime Union of New Zealand

    I don’t think that anyone who heard Helen Kelly, President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions speak at the TUC recently could have failed to be impressed. There was a great freshness and directness about her delivery and, of course, it’s great to see another national centre being lead by a woman.  But it was the subject of her presentation – on the NZCTU’s “Together” programme that really set me thinking. This is a different take on the “community-based”  trade unionism  championed not just by Unite and Community  but also unions  like  my own CWU,  who  have always looked to support members and their families  at home as well as work, and often when they are  out of work as well as employed.

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    Posted on November 5th, 2012 by Simon Sapper filed under: Union organising