Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Ryan
Two months goes very quickly when you are organising, I have warn through one set of shoes, one coat and now know London by betting shop locations. When I started at Community no one said it would be easy, but I don’t know any organising campaign that is! It is not hard to get motivated [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2008 by Sam
Well, it’s halfway through our second lot of training, and tonight we’ve had a trade union quiz, No idea who got what score, or who won, just that a few bottles of wine were won. Had a really interesting discussion about the Obama election campaign this afternoon.
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Pavel
We should be talking about specific campaigns but in my case it could be slightly different. Last week I and my coach finally met some key branches in the region to find out where we have possible resources and in what areas we as a organising dept. could help or support them as well. [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by Joanna
Another Monday at the EIS and I’ve just finished reading through emails from students studying Education in Scotland. Last week, I went to most of my Universities and put EIS posters up. The posters are an introduction to the students about who I am and the work I do, which unfortunately means there’s a photo of me on the [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by Robert
Just got back to the office after spending a weekend in Abergavenny on a Unite Young Members Weekend School.
It was great to get out from behind my desk and meet some young trade union members/activists and even better that some of them expressed an interest in the work I’m doing which was encouraging.
Feeling rather tired now [...]
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