Lessons in Organising - Strategy

About The Course

Several unions recently have won industrial action ballots despite the punitive thresholds imposed on them by legislation. What lessons can we learn from these successes so we can continue to win for members? Drawing heavily on the success of the National Education Union (NEU) in securing a huge mandate for action from their members across schools in England and Wales, we will be answering this question.

This course takes its name from the Lessons in Organising book written by our General Secretary and others. All pupils are provided with a Google Classroom of materials. Lessons in Organising – Strategy is aimed at trade union leaders looking to nationally provide organising strategies and plans.

This course will be delivered by Howard Stevenson, Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he was previously President of the UCU branch. He is a co-author of ‘Lessons in Organising: What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers’. As well as a GFTU tutor, Howard is currently the co-ordinator of UCU’s ‘Building to Win’ organising project and a special consultant for Education International.