ORGANISING ACADEMY

Ben Egan

After leaving school Ben spent a few years working in a variety of jobs. This included numerous bad experiences working as an agency worker. These experiences of the world of work shaped his decision to take a degree in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University and to write his dissertation on Agency Workers. During this time he secured a 1 year internship with the TUC which he really enjoyed, and taught him a great deal about the issues facing UK trade unions today. This was followed by a post working as a project worker for unionlearn in Yorkshire and the Humber. Ben has found his experience so far of the TUC Organising Academy to be “interesting and different”. Ben’s aspirations are to learn more about organising in a formal way and he is looking forward to learning as much as possible about organising in the education sector with ATL and gaining an invaluable experience during his Organising Academy year.