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Blogs by Kevin Leetion

After starting off my working life as a PCS member where I was a branch secretary and activist in its fledgling young members network, I now work for the Organising Department of the CWU. Much of our time is spent working with members in companies without recogntion agreements as we try to encourage and coach them to build a union in their workplace. However, there is potential for every part of the union to be better organised and our department is always there to work with YACs, youth officers, and branches who have identified an organising need. I hope some of my blog posts will start a discussion on how we organise better and share best practice.

Like many of you I've been enjoying the world cup despite Scotland's absence.  I always enjoy the big tournaments but there's something special about the World Cup when it's being...

As an organiser I sometimes hear people say things like "we don't have time to organise with all the issues we have at the moment" or "organising's important, but not...

In the past few months I've posted a couple of links here to videos promoting unions and workers' rights.  The point has been to show the potential of video and...

Some of you will know that last weekend we held our first Activist Conference  in Manchester.  It was aimed at reps and other activists in companies outside BT and Royal...

A few weeks ago I linked to some videos entered as part of a TUC competition- http://www.cwuyouth.org/view-blog.html?blog_id=76.  Well now here is a current international competion run by LabourStart and you...