Union Building With a Labour Government
On current trends 2024 seems on course to produce a Labour Government for the first time in 14 years. The Tory Party seems likely to be...
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Organising For A Change
Organisations tend to do just what they were built to do. they need to change themselves at the same time as they seek to change their worlds. This is the job of organisers - to build and rebuild unions
Organising and leading change for 30 years at BWTUC, TUC Organising Academy, GMB, Labour Community Organising, Global Supply Chains and UCU
Organising For Change offers advice training and coaching on union building and leading change
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Now is the Time
The recent groundswell of wage militancy across the public, private and privatised sectors has been more than a decade in the making....
Union Building in the Platform Economy
Estimates vary but union builders are seeing a huge expansion of platform style working conditions across the labour market as capitalism...
Building Class Unity
1993 saw the Tories announce their latest masterplan to destroy and disable unions once and for all – the re-sign legislation which...
United We Bargain
We bargain when the employer knows we can stop the job and deliver effective strike action supported by the majority of their workforce....
Divided We Beg
A direct challenge from those whose shoulders we stand on lurks in the background – to reject the easy cop out of managing the decline of...
Developing Effective Leadership
The right wing view is that leaders make history. Our view in the labour and trade union movement is essentially the opposite – that...
Looking for Leaders
Workplace leaders tend to be those who define reality and build consensus within a group of workers. Either for, or against, the union....
Organising Planner
A useful ready reckoner for union organisers and campaigners to bring together in one place the tools methods and philosophy contained in...
Our Move
A campaign is not an end in itself. Its about getting a specific Target to make a change they don’t want to make by mobilising people to...
Campaigning for Power - Aim Target Lever.
All the rights we have as working people were fought for and squeezed out of the rich and powerful against their will. We were never...
Leading Conversations
Some research shows that people at work are not active in their local union because they have never been asked. Organisers know that what...
Why do People Join Unions?
And what keeps them away? There are lots of theories about why people join unions at work, get active in them and what they are looking...
Where Next? Access Issues Momentum
One of the symptoms of managed decline in unions is the apparent difficulty in choosing between competing organising opportunities and...
Growth Structure and Impact. A Model for Growth
The opposition from within unions to the hard graft of growing the union from the bottom up through organising can be committed and...
The Blame Factory
The culture of managing decline in our organisations is corrosive to organising politics and culture and serves to undermine union...
Rocking the Boat - Organising For A Change
This blog aims to be a place for discussion about a simple and unavoidable fact; our trade union organisations tend to do what they were...
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