EC Meeting July 2022

Organised jointly with ERENSEP and SOAS University of London these were regarded as excellent.

Just as history has been stripped out of trade union education, so has economics and it is time to restore it. SOAS are interested in working on some funding beids with us to organise two face to face conferences which could deepen the economic debate and help unions formulate new policies and produce some publications. I strongly suggest we explore this. Thanks to Oshor Williams and Jason Lee of the PFA, we are offering strategic level EDI training and follow on training for local reps. The Education Officers network requested that I produce a paper on offering some bite size training, learn at lunchtime kind of events and I think this potentially has a lot of mileage and could enable us to be more inclusive and flexible. I will draft proposals for September. If there are any suggestions please contact me directly. 2.4 New offers

2.5

Our new reps training course

As reported previously we have revised our new reps training and I was pleased to note that our recent roll out of this with 14 students received a very positive feedback. This course will be further improved and repeated and we will customise copies of the Labour Research Law at Work book to distribute.

2.6

CCISUA

The GFTU provided a very well received training programme for the leaderships of the different affiliated unions to CCISUA, the umbrella union in the United Nations. This is being followed up by a number of online sessions.

2.7

The Bigger Picture.

I am proposing to run to evening seminars on wider geopolitical issues that are of interest to trade unionists and which can stimulate some challenging debate. I would like to run the first two on firstly the state of the US at home and in the world, and what is really happening in China. These would be online and of no cost.

2.8

Education Officers ’ network.

This is always a great forum for debate. 15 officers attended the last discussions. Ideas that we will pursue were raised and practical support given.

2.9

ASLEF

We have organised reps and equalities training for ASLEF all at non-affiliated costs.

2.10

Unions using Quorn this year.

Thanks to a number of unions for using Quorn for their events: NAHT, URTU, ASLEF, Community, Bakers, CSP come to mind.

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