- Conference
- Date
- June 16, 2017
- Decision
Conference notes that recruitment and organising needs to be at the heart of any strong and powerful union.
Conference notes that we need to:
- Recruit new members into our union to increase the union’s voice and to ensure the long-term viability of the union;
- Recognise that organising, not servicing, is what makes our union stronger and more able to win things;
- Continue to identify and develop a new layer of UNISON activists for now and for the future;
- Organise workers at the grassroots and teach them how they should be directly involved in building a strong union in their own workplaces, so that they have the power to win things for themselves.
Conference therefore requests the National Executive Council to:
- Encourage regions to map our members in the community, voluntary and private sectors to identify target areas for recruitment and organising;
- Review and develop materials to help branches turn members into activists;
- Survey regions and branches and produce a series of best practice case studies with supporting materials and contact information on each of the case studies;
- Develop materials that will help staff and lay organisers to teach workers how the workers themselves need to build a strong union in their own workplaces so they have the power to win things themselves.
Birmingham UNISON Branch
NEC POLICY: SUPPORT