What education do union organisers and other activists
need?
Public talk and discussion
Thursday, February 11th at 6 pm
Unite, 55-56 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Ruskin College Oxford is well known as a strategic
educational location for the labour movement in Britain and beyond, with a
continuing educational mission to provide radical, socially transformative
education to working class men and women. For the past ten years its MA in
International Labour and Trade Union Studies has been the only programme in the
UK written specifically for those employed or active around issues of worker
organisation, mobilisation and representation. This year it has been updated as
the MA in Global Labour and Social Change. Its coordinator, Ian Manborde, will
talk about the experience of the MA so far and the debate about what education
union organisers and other activists need most.
Ian Manborde is coordinator of the MA in Global Labour and
Social Change at Ruskin College Oxford, with its close links to the labour
movement. A lifelong trade unionist, he was a convenor with the CPSA (now PCS),
was projects manager for the General Federation of Trade Unions and is a
founding member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (UK). Ian has worked
in workers’ and trade union education for over twenty years, including the
Workers’ Educational Association and Northern College, Barnsley. He has also
worked extensively as consultant and / or teacher for many trade unions and
federations in the UK and internationally.
Update:
Unite's Education and Development organiser Brendan Ogle will also speak at the event, further details TBA.
Brendan Ogle has been secretary of the ESB Group of Unions and Executive Secretary of the Irish Locomotive Drivers Association. He is one of the organisers of Right2Water.
Update:
Unite's Education and Development organiser Brendan Ogle will also speak at the event, further details TBA.
Brendan Ogle has been secretary of the ESB Group of Unions and Executive Secretary of the Irish Locomotive Drivers Association. He is one of the organisers of Right2Water.
Organised by the MA in Community Education, Equality and
Social Activism at Maynooth
Many thanks to Unite the union for hosting this event.
Free, all welcome.