 What is to be Done with Union Organising?Gregor Gall Chapter 1 in Union Revitalisation in Advanced Economies, 2009, pp 1-16 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract An official fringe meeting at the British Trade Union Congress (TUC) in 2008 was entitled ‘Building Stronger Unions: what more can we do to grow?’ The press release for the meeting, which saw platform speakers comprising senior employed union officers (EUOs) from three growing unions in Britain (National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), Public and Commercial Services’ Union (PCS) and Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)), the TUC Organising Academy Director and the AFL-CIO Executive Vice-President, lamented that: Ten years on from the launch of the TUC Organising Academy, unions find themselves at a crossroads. Over the last decade membership has stabilised, and unions have signed over 3,000 new agreements with employers, but union density is still falling. This [meeting] will ask what more can unions do to grow? How can we put reps and activists at the heart of our organising strategies? How can we step up our organising efforts and reach out to the next generation of union members and activists? Keywords: Social Movement; Labour Unionism; Advance Economy; Union Density; Union Organise (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23347-8_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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