GFTU Education in Action 2017 -2018

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Our History, Our Future

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The GFTU has commissioned from Banner Theatre an amazing performance piece in songs, video clips, images and interviews of the history of the trade union movement. This is available to unions for showing and stimulating debate at union education and other events. The performance lasts 75 minutes.

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Our History, Our Future The past we inherit, the future we build

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Customised Courses

Each GFTU affiliate is entitled to one day of free training according to its own requirements. Please contact the GFTU General Secretary to arrange.

through their own union training programmes. Our History, Our Future is a perfect way of filling some of these gaps. This performance piece is ideal for use in trade union training events, and in the wider community. It is accompanied by a popular education workshop that uses the exciting and moving material presented to stimulate debate about then, now, and what is to come.

Managing Your Education

The GFTU can take on under a service level agreement the management of all of your union’s education programme.

A new account of the power of workers’ history to strengthen us today. The GFTU has commissioned a new 75-minute performance piece from Banner Theatre, with video clips, songs and stories to bring alive the full sweep of our trade union history in a powerful and impactful way. Trade union history is not taught in schools, and labour history is a minority strand in universities’

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curriculum. Few workers get to know of the great transforming history of our Movement

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