The Convention Blog

Trade unions at the Convention

The nice people at the TUC website have posted notices about the Convention and it’s on the NUJ website too. Time to think about trade unions.
Not long ago the media was saying very little about this key democratic movement, though there are 6.5M trade union members in Britain and many millions more worldwide.
Cometh the hour. With recession, unions [...]

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Christina Zaba’s first update

So 24 hours before the Convention kicks off, we’ve set up a centre of operations in the Royal National Hotel across the road from where the event will be. At one end of the room Henry is briefing the press team for tomorrow. At the other, people are sitting on the floor in orderly style, [...]

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