8. Assistance for branches in Recruiting and Organising

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;
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 all relevant sectors to identify target areas for recruitment;
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;
Regularly advertise to branches the recruitment aids that our service providers have produced, such as pull up stands, leaflet racks and portable counters, and encourage branches to buy this equipment.

Worcestershire

NEC POLICY: SUPPORT