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It’s time for the whole labour movement to back Organise Now
General secretary of the bakers' union SARAH WOOLLEY looks at the marked success of the innovative workplace recruitment and organising tool for union activists after its first year
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HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
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THIS weekend, we celebrate a year of the Organise Now project, launched by the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, Strike Map and Notes from Below at last year’s World Transformed festival.
Impressed by comrades in the US, we wanted to emulate the incredible success of the Emergency Workplace Organising Committee (EWOC), which has helped organise thousands of workers in sectors where unions have been non-existent for generations.
Organise Now is a response to the crises in work, pay and living standards. As a movement, we have to face the reality that, according to the government’s own data, 200,000 left the union movement in 2022 — 129,000 of them women in the private sector.
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General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel
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