A vital work on labour movement strategy by experienced union activists
‘An excellent review of the attack on teachers and their unions, by authors well placed to point to ways to improve the fight back and resistance’ – Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary NEU
The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organizing in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the ‘turn to organizing’ in the union movement today.
This turn to collective organizing builds strength at a local as well as a national level, and also aids in mobilizing around a wider range of political issues from campaigning against austerity to taking action for the environment. In recent years, this fusion of workplace organizing and national campaigning has been exemplified by Europe’s largest education trade union, the National Education Union (NEU).
In Lessons in Organising, the authors bring together activist, academic and union official perspectives to assess the potential (and the limitations) of the ‘turn to organizing’ and set out the case for a new transformative trade unionism for the 21st century.
Table of Content
1. Introduction
2. The Crisis of Organised Labour
3. Class Wars: Public Education and the War on Teachers
4. Building Power in the Workplace
5. Breaking Neoliberal Hegemony in Education
6. Organising in a Crisis
7. Lessons in Organising
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About the author
David Wilson is Assistant General Secretary (Campaigns and Communications) at the National Education Union (NEU), and previously was Head of Organising in the National Union of Teachers (NUT). He tweets at @David Wilson1975.
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