Professional development. Often overlooked due to casework deadlines, campaign actions and the general day to day work of being a union officer. But it is important for union officers to continue professional development as part of building union capacity.
I’m sure that there will be many blog posts around talking about the cabinet reshuffle, this post is actually going to be one of the many on the World Cup. Organising and the World Cup. Or rather, how I seem to have ended up organising and running campaigns a bit like the German Football League.…
We have our goals, we have looked at our resources. Next up, who can we count on and who will we be up against? I think it’s important that we create and sustain broad coalitions and relationships between campaigners with a social and economic justice focus. By supporting each other and sharing our work we…
So, we have our goals in place. We know what we want to achieve and the milestones needed to achieve it. What next? It’s time for campaigners to look at what resources we have at our disposal to make the goal the reality.
As Maria in the Sound of Music said, ‘lets start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start’. And so it is with running a campaign. I have often seen campaigners and organisers get an idea for an issue, a good soundbite and some headline catching stunts and begin a campaign. More…
In the position I’m in here at the TUC, I’m often asked what I am reading, what I would recommend to others hoping to steer successful campaigns. Over the last year, I have been increasingly drawn to the work of cognitive linguistics in the shape of George Lakoff (more on my take on communications can be found here)…
As part of Blog Action Day, Owen blogged earlier today on the ‘Power of We’ and that trade unions are the manifestation of the ‘we’ at work. What does the ‘we’ at work actually mean and how do unions think about this to make us stronger?