Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Chris
Name: Chris Musgrave
Age: 23
Background
Originally from Pontypridd, but spent his working time in the City of Cardiff, where he worked for the HMRC for 7 years.
Chris was propelled into activation by a growing dissatisfaction with his management and deteriorating working conditions. During his time at HMRC he was a PCS Union Representative for four years, and [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Christian
Well, that was an interesting first week, negotiating blizzard conditions and a 130 mile trip to start my first day. Then being sent home at 12pm as the snow was so heavy.
The end of the week saw me moving into my accomadation and arranging, re-arranging then arranging some more, till i finaly settled in. Gorgeous [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Ben Egan
As we all know, there are a multitude of factors that make the current world of work a ‘difficult climate’ in which to organise so perhaps the sub-zero first week for us 2010 trainees was fitting.
Difficulty in getting anywhere has characterised the first week as well getting used to working from home. Sorting out a [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2010 by Ellenor
Well my first week has been and gone and it feels about time for the first blog entry!
Seeing as I’ll be working on the Vulnerable Workers Project I thought I’d explain a little about what we mean by vulnerable workers and what the trade union movement has been doing about the problem so far.
The TUC’s [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Jennifer
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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Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Tracey
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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Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Ellenor
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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Posted on January 5th, 2010 by David
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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Posted on January 5th, 2010 by 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. [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2010 by Siân
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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