Issue 28
TUC asks for recruitment promise
The TUC is asking workers to sign up to Organise 2020, an initiative to build on recent increases in trade union membership in the UK.
The 6.4 million union members equal just one in four of the workforce, the TUC says, and asks everyone to sign up to an online pledge to:
• increase the number of workers aged under 30 in our movement;
• enthuse thousands of activists from all backgrounds to train as new workplace reps;
• work co-operatively between unions to bring trade unionism into new and growing sectors;
• work jointly to eliminate insecure employment;
• modernise how unions operate, organise and communicate for a digital-first era; and
• drive up union membership levels where we already have recognition agreements.