ORGANISING ACADEMY

Chris is originally from a small town in South Wales, where he worked as a Liaison Officer for the local authority, providing Disabled Facility grants for children, the elderly and young adults.
He was a steward with Unison for 14 months, before becoming an officer and taking up the position of Joint Trade Union [...]

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Jennifer Larbie
22
NUT Organiser
 In March 2008, I was elected President of University of Birmingham Guild of students (2008-2009). My biggest achievement in this role was fighting and winning a campaign to reduce the cost of printing on campus, now saving the student body thousands of this academic year. Till this day I still get face book [...]

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Tracey is sponsored by the CWU.
 Background: Tracey was a student at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where her degree involved Honours work in Linguistics and Sociolinguistics.  She was introduced to the work of Noam Chomsky, whose social and political writings were an inspiration.  
After a year in the NHS, she went [...]

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Ellenor Hutson is 30 years old and is sponsored by South East Region TUC to work on a project to Organise Vulnerable Workers, funded by the Union Modernisation Fund.
She has previously worked as a Welfare Benefits Advisor at Kilburn Citizens Advice Bureau where she was also the union rep for Unite. Ellenor has also been [...]

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Dave Condliffe lives in Brown Edge, Stoke on Trent.
He has been active in the Communication Workers Union since 1988 at Burslem Delivery office where he joined as a postal worker.  Since then he has served the union as an Industrial Relations Rep, Union Learning Rep and Branch Officer at Midlands No 7 Branch.
He has worked [...]

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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. [...]

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This blog is under new management! We’d like to welcome the next intake of trainees on the TUC Organising Academy programme. You’ll start seeing posts here from our new colleagues now, and can use the blog to keep up with their journey throughout 2010. We’ve a great bunch on board this year, so here’s wishing [...]

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Sian has worked across the public, private and voluntary sectors. She has always been involved in trade unions and she has been a regular attendee at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Rally.
Sian became aware of the Organising model during her time as a PCS Branch Organiser at the Electoral Commission. She believes in empowering members rather than [...]

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Richard Marshall
Age: 23
Sponsoring union: ATL
Richard trained as a primary school teacher straight from sixth form college and continued teaching for two years. He lost enthusiasm due to the lack of teaching opportunities in the North East and his experience as a long-term supply teacher. However, it was by no means all bad, as teaching enabled [...]

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