10 skills of organising - response

Organising is simple - keep it that way! Organising or to give it its full title, trade unionism, is simple. We forget that sometimes and too often we dont plan or manage it very well, but it remains simple.

We should keep it that way.

1. The ability to find out where our members and potential members are.

2. The ability to visit workers in those workplaces.

3. The ability to listen to those workers to find out what their concerns are.

4. The ability to ask those not in the union to join.

5. The ability to help those workers take their concerns to their employer.

6. The ability to develop them so they can do it for themselves.

7. The ability to ask for help.

And we've even got 3 to spare. Simple.

AB