Friends of the GFTU Educational Trust launches in Parliament
FRIENDS of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) Educational Trust launched in Parliament on Thursday night, with activists coming together to back trade union education.
Hosting Labour MP Richard Burgon said “self-educating our class is a proud tradition of the trade union movement.”
He stressed “the wide range of course available at reasonable prices” from the trust, including “lessons about organising in the workplace to be the next generation of trade union workplace leaders… [and] an excellent education programme called The Roots of Racism, where it comes from, how it can be combatted.”
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