How we can better support the skills of older workers given a recruitment and retention crisis and a rapidly aging workforce. In the UK we are living through a recruitment and retention crisis where over 900,000 pre-retirement workers have left the labour market during the Pandemic. Like many countries in Europe we are also currently facing a demographic crisis, with […]
Join this discussion about how socialists can organise in trade unions, with Ian Allinson plus facilitators from Organise! Now and Strike Map.Partisan Collective, Salford Unit 2, New Islington Mill, Regent Trading Estate, Oldfield Road, Salford
Developing Black Activists in Welsh Trade Unions While Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic workers are more likely to be trade union members, they remain underrepresented as union reps, activists, staff, officers, political leaders and change makers. We need to encourage, educate and support those interested in stepping up within our movement. The TUC’s Anti-Racism Taskforce and the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist […]
About this event John McDonnell, Jon Trickett, Holly Turner (NHS Workers Say No), Özlem Onaran, Professor of Economics, University of Greenwich, Andrew Fisher & more tba. Join us on the day of Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement to discuss how we respond, the case for investment not cuts & to have your questions answered. Online briefing on the Tories' "austerity autumn […]
The 'blue wall', previously safe Tory seats where despite losing in 2019 Labour, and the Liberal Democrats, did proportionately better than elsewhere. Heavily concentrated in the South East these will be a key battleground towards ensuring Rishi Sunak leads his party to defeat at the next General Election This will be a day of big ideas towards dismantling the Blue […]
We'll be talking to journalist and former presenter of Newsnight Gavin Esler about democracy and the future of Britain. Gavin Esler has travelled around the country documenting the rise of nationalism in all four nations, and considering the consequences for the United Kingdom as a whole. Our hyper-centralised Westminster government is no longer working for so many people - but […]
We are holding a stall in Knaresborough at the Yorkshire & Humber Lib Dem regional conference on: Saturday 19 November, 11am to 3.30pm Location: Aspin Park Academy, Wetherby Road, Knaresborough HG5 8LQ For further information you can contact: [email protected]
Cowley Workers Social Club Between Towns Road, Oxford Come and discuss this new guide to the techniques and politics of organising at work from Pluto Press with the author and other activists at the Oxford book launch.
Overview **Participants can choose either joining in person or online, please register for confirming your attendance. This event: Green energy must be adopted various industries in order to achieve net zero targets by 2050. The transition will have an enormous influence on different workplaces and no worker should be left behind. From a trade union point of view, green energy has […]
The TUC Yorkshire & the Humber’s winter patrol for young workers is back. This November (23rd - 26th) we will take to the streets of Leeds, Sheffield and Bradford to speak to young workers about trade unions – and we need you to help! Sign up for summer patrol to take part in our organising training programme, workplace canvassing, and social events. […]
