Network Journal 2007 Issue 3 May/June

All aboard for first Membership Week

Usdaw’s team of officials are gearing up for the first ever National Membership Week which will take place from July 16-22.

John Hannett, Usdaw General Secretary

Area organisers, recruitment and development officers, training officers will be pulling out all the stops to give the union a massive membership boost during the summer.

Vital to the success of this initiative is our dedicated team of reps and activists who will play a pivotal role during the Week.

Potential

We will only be successful if we work as a team to strengthen our membership where we already have members and reach out to those potential members at unorganised sites.

It promises to be an exciting week with new promotional leaflets and posters in the pipeline and a determination to make a real difference in workplaces across the UK. We need to identify the thousands of new members who are within our grasp and explain to them how Usdaw can improve their working lives.

Speak to your manager now about time off to organise a stall in the canteen, or time off to talk to new starters/non-members. Arrange your team of reps on to a rota so everyone spends some time focused on this recruitment initiative.

If we all start planning for the week now I am confident we can deliver a massive boost to our membership across all Usdaw sectors which will be unprecedented in the union's history.

Respect day

Membership Week will come hot on the heels of our annual, and very successful, Respect Day, part of our award-winning Freedom From Fear campaign. This will take place on July 11 and will see activists raise the profile of the issue of violence and abuse at work right across the UK. Each division has a series of events planned and there will be a national launch in London.

Again it's vital as many reps as possible get involved in these events.

During the last four years of the campaign we have won important improvements at work, put safety on the political and employment agenda, raised the union's profile, and recruited thousands of members on the back of the campaign.

July will be a busy month, with your help it will be a very successful one too.

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