STRONGER UNIONS » 10th

Uni call for ‘global dimension to organising’

Paul Nowak — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:04:17 +0000

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.

Celebrating our 10 ‘Birthday’

Paul Nowak — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:23:10 +0000

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 of the final ‘polling’ session to everyone registered for the conference.

In the meantime, here’s the TUC/Congress TV film we produced for Congress looking back on the Academy’s first ten years.

10 years on – and looking forward

Paul Nowak — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:11:47 +0000

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 mark 10 years of the Organising Academy – but also to look ahead to what more unions can do to grow.

We hope the event will be a good opportunity for as many of the 250 or so organisers who have gone through the Academy to get back together and celebrate the campaigns they have been part of. But we also want as many union activists, officers and organisers as possible to join us to think through some of the big challenges facing unions – how we build our activist base; how we begin to turn round private sector density decline; and how we position unions as strong, effective organisations in the workplace and beyond.

So please join us, and be a part of the debate on October 14!