Campaigning can now be delivered direct to branches

A successful pilot campaigning course in Shetland is to lead to Branches all being offered the chance to run the course over one or two days.

The course, developed from a strategic campaigning course devised by the union's Learning and Organising section, has been cut down so that it can be delivered in a shorter time frame.

Communications Officer Chris Bartter, who delivered the course in Shetland, said, "A combination of the fact that all students are in the one branch, and some judicious pruning of the course has meant that it takes less time to run with one branch than with students from a variety of branches."

The course was so successful that the students stayed on at the end to continue to work on the campaign they had picked for training purposes - trying to get it to a stage where they could turn it into a full branch campaign.

Tracey Leith, Shetland Branch Education Officer said, "We all think we can take part in a campaign but what this course does is to set out the steps you must take to give it more chance of success."

If branches want to discuss running a course, please phone or email Chris at 0141 342 2877 c.bartter@unison.co.uk. In addition the Communications Committee will be running the Campaigning Course on a Scottish-wide basis from 3-5 October.

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