Activists' Corner - Using Health & Safety to Organise in Partnership with Greater Manchester Hazards Centre

About The Course

We all like to learn and develop skills that can support our trade union activity. This series of sessions will focus on practical tools and skills that you can take back to your workplace.

Throughout Activists’ Corner sessions, you will be able to build your toolkit for building power at work and growing the strength of your union to make meaningful change.

This course is provided online and will be capped at 16 participants to ensure as much participation as possible. All pupils will be provided with a Google Classroom for access to resources, session recordings and materials used.

The sessions will be delivered by a mixture of activists and specialists in their subject and is a great chance to develop all your skills further.

Using Health & Safety to Organise in Partnership with Greater Manchester Hazards Centre will be delivered by Janet Newsham, who has been an active trade unionist and representative since starting work at Bae in 1980. She has been a GFTU Educational Trust member since 1995 and, after a career break with her 3 children, returned to work in trade union education, delivering trade union and TUC courses from introductions to diploma level courses. Janet still delivers UCU Workload reps training and long Covid training. She started work at Greater Manchester Hazards Centre 7 years ago, where she is the coordinator and Chair of the UK Hazards Campaign.