Events for trade unionists

AWL Trade Union School

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Date: 
25 October, 2008 - 13:30 - 19:00
Location: 

Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG

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AWL Trade Union School. Creche available: phone 07814 725 537 to book places. Download leaflet (see "attachment" below) for details. Registration £10 waged, £5 unwaged.

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AWL trade union school

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Date: 
17 September, 2005 - 14:00
Location: 

St Mary's Community Centre, 302B Upper St, London N1

Description: 

Book online here.

Dear Brother/ Sister,

DAY SCHOOL FOR TRADE UNION ACTIVISTS, 17 SEPTEMBER 2005

Please bring the day school detailed below to the attention of your branch, and consider coming yourself.

A professionally-staffed creche will be provided, free of charge, but please let us know in advance about the numbers, ages, and any special requirements of children coming to the creche.

Thank you,

Workers’ Liberty.

*****

A day school for rank and file trade unionists

Saturday 17 September

Noon to 6pm

St Mary's Community Centre

(next to St Mary's Church)

302B Upper Street, Islington, London N1

(nearest tubes: Angel or Highbury and Islington)

Organised by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty

Sessions include:

* Pensions: a strategy to win. With a panel of speakers from Unison, PCS & NUT

* Partnerships: can they work? Tesco workers discuss their experiences

* Equality: the fight goes on. Speakers include Linda Weightman [invited] from the victorious equal pay battle by Unison health workers in Carlisle

* Iraqi Trade Unions: how they are organising and how we can support them. Houzan Mahmoud - Federation of Workers' Councils and Unions in Iraq

* How to Make Compromises, and what compromises to make. Speaker - John Moloney PCS Executive (in a personal capacity)

* Organising to Win. Matt Bailey - NUT, Steve Hedley - RMT [invited], Charlie McDonald - PCS

* Mergers, Super-Unions and Union Structure. Kim Moody, former editor of Labor Notes and author of Workers in a Lean World

This will be a working day school, with sessions in a variety of formats allowing trade unionists to share skills, experiences and debates.

If you would like to attend, please book online above or send your name and contact details, with a cheque, to AWL, P.O. Box 823, London SE15 4NA.

E-mail: dayschool@workersliberty.org.

Phone 020 7207 3997

£10 f/t worker * £6 p/t worker * £5 unwaged

Book online here.

Rebuilding the movement

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Author: 
Stuart Jordan

A brief look at the current industrial news is enough to make any socialist’s eyes water. We have seen the GMB (with one eye to the sinking ship of New Labour) seek talks with the Tories, and Unison scuppering any possibility of a united public sector pay fight. Even in the unions, such as PCS and NUT, where the “left” control the leadership, there is little industrial strategy to win the pay fight, and scant effort is going into the most basic task of building a fighting, militant union movement.

AWL trade union school report

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Martin Thomas

Fifty activists attended the Workers' Liberty trade union school in London on 15 September. Workshops looked at how to organise strikes and how to operate as a socialist political activist in the workplace, and a plenary discussed the CWU dispute and the public sector pay battle more generally.

Organising in the unions

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The next month sees two important trade union events for socialists who want to organise for a fighting labour movement. The first is the RMT-sponsored conference for a “national shop stewards’ movement” on 28 October; the second the Respect-initiated “Organising for Fighting Unions” conference on 11 November.