Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
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TUC Congress 2015: Schools can make a difference
While addressing poverty and its causes must be top priority, teachers can help in tackling educational inequality in the classroom, argues LARRY FLANAGAN
Young workers do want to get involved in Unison, and where that is enabled we see growth in workplace power, argue Unison North West Young Members co-chairs ZAIHERA CHAUDHRY and IAN CAULFIELD
British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict. It’s time we made different choices, argues LIZ PAYNE
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Animal metaphors are testament to delight in the non-human world and what we hope and wish for human freedom, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT"
Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
SCHOOLS cannot eradicate the poverty which exists in our society. Nor can they fully mitigate the impact that poverty has on our young people.
Those in public life who seek to highlight the inequalities created by poverty would do well to understand that if we wish to end the negative impact of poverty on school attainment, we need to address the existence of poverty itself.
Having said that, however, we should recognise that schools and teachers can and do make a difference in the lives of individuals, of groups of children, and even on whole cohorts, which is why the daily interaction in our classrooms is so important and indeed powerful.
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