Edinburgh When we’re not practicing “raps,” and strategizing about the best way forward in the Leith neighborhood of Edinburgh for ACORN Scotland, I’ve been thinking about the interesting features of the labor law in the United Kingdom that allow workers to build unions and win consultation rights with employers prior to achieving majorities that would …
Category: Organizing
Study Establishes that People-User-Based Public Service Strategy Could Save Billions
Edinburgh Riding on the train from Stafford to Edinburgh, I started reading a pamphlet produced by Locality, the big UK nonprofit. The title, “Saving Money by Doing the Right Thing,” had caught my eye sitting on a literature table at the training conference. The upshot was a contrarian, but in our experience accurate and corrective …
English Community Organizing Program Tries to Plot a Path to the Future
Stafford The last cohort of 35 (not the Roman 100) organizers begins in July meaning that the Big Society Community Organising Programme will have started a training cycle on more than 500 organizers in roughly three years fulfilling their charge from Westminster and the Cameron Conservative government. The last training component ends in March 2015 …