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Launching our Trade Union Project
Sign ups have opened for Pathways to Power and Justice, a year-long participatory action research project connecting members and staff from six trade unions to produce a set of collective tools and strategies for building longer term worker power (and tackling the challenges that come with this!)
We’ll examine how models of care, cooperation, participation, democracy and (collective) leadership are central to creating the capacities, coalitions and diverse cadre of of leaders we need to lead the fight for justice in our workplaces and communities – and we will show why this isn’t simply a ‘nice thing to do’ – but is ultimately more strategic.
Participating unions or their cohort will be offered £500 to participate. The deadline to apply is 28th April. We’ll also be running an information sessions on Thursday 10th April 1-2pm and Wednesday 16th April 6-7pm – email feminisepoliticsnow@gmail.com to book a spot.
Launching our booklet at The World Transformed 2023!
In Liverpool in October 2023 at The World Transformed, a festival of radical politics, art and music we ran a workshop, launching our very own booklet full of case studies of the organisations we have worked with!
How we used the booklet
We used the booklet extensively in the workshop, and based it around the use of it as a practical resource. We gave an introduction to how the resource came about about, and the intention of the workshop – to explore the importance of challenging the ways we’ve learnt to organise and responding using principles and strategies of care, collaboration/coalition, (shared) leadership, participation, democracy and anti-oppression can help us become stronger more sustainable groups. Each of the chapter writers gave some insight into why they wrote it and the groups that they reached out to spotlight in the case studies section.
Reflecting on the group work
The focus of the workshop was practical, so after we orientated ourselves to the values of the network we quickly turned to group work. We gave prompts for people to engage with the themes in relation to their organisations and groups. Each group took a different approach to this. The group analysing the chapter on Care did a close reading of the case study, pulling out the themes of rotational care roles in groups, and how to go about implementing these practises in different contexts from Students Unions to trade union organising. The group focusing on Collaboration talked more exclusively about municipal housing projects and the dynamics of navigating this as long term tenants, housing officers and local councillors elected for a four year term. The question of how to work in coalition from different positions relating to these projects was pulled apart. They discussed the complexities of working across different timelines, from election cycles, to entrenched council workers’ ways of working, and the urgency of tenants’ cost of living increasing currently. The group explored the different roles in coalitions to push for more affordable housing, and less luxury developments in their local areas.
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Launching our Trade Union Project
Sign ups have opened for Pathways to Power and Justice, a year-long participatory action research project connecting members and staff from six trade unions to produce a set of collective tools and strategies for building longer term worker power (and tackling the challenges that come with this!)
We’ll examine how models of care, cooperation, participation, democracy and (collective) leadership are central to creating the capacities, coalitions and diverse cadre of of leaders we need to lead the fight for justice in our workplaces and communities – and we will show why this isn’t simply a ‘nice thing to do’ – but is ultimately more strategic.
Participating unions or their cohort will be offered £500 to participate. The deadline to apply is 28th April. We’ll also be running an information sessions on Thursday 10th April 1-2pm and Wednesday 16th April 6-7pm – email feminisepoliticsnow@gmail.com to book a spot.
Launching our booklet at The World Transformed 2023!
In Liverpool in October 2023 at The World Transformed, a festival of radical politics, art and music we ran a workshop, launching our very own booklet full of case studies of the organisations we have worked with!
How we used the booklet
We used the booklet extensively in the workshop, and based it around the use of it as a practical resource. We gave an introduction to how the resource came about about, and the intention of the workshop – to explore the importance of challenging the ways we’ve learnt to organise and responding using principles and strategies of care, collaboration/coalition, (shared) leadership, participation, democracy and anti-oppression can help us become stronger more sustainable groups. Each of the chapter writers gave some insight into why they wrote it and the groups that they reached out to spotlight in the case studies section.
Reflecting on the group work
The focus of the workshop was practical, so after we orientated ourselves to the values of the network we quickly turned to group work. We gave prompts for people to engage with the themes in relation to their organisations and groups. Each group took a different approach to this. The group analysing the chapter on Care did a close reading of the case study, pulling out the themes of rotational care roles in groups, and how to go about implementing these practises in different contexts from Students Unions to trade union organising. The group focusing on Collaboration talked more exclusively about municipal housing projects and the dynamics of navigating this as long term tenants, housing officers and local councillors elected for a four year term. The question of how to work in coalition from different positions relating to these projects was pulled apart. They discussed the complexities of working across different timelines, from election cycles, to entrenched council workers’ ways of working, and the urgency of tenants’ cost of living increasing currently. The group explored the different roles in coalitions to push for more affordable housing, and less luxury developments in their local areas.
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