National organising strategy

Conference notes that at Conference 2022, Greater Manchester submitted a successful resolution regarding the organising approach of our Union.

Amongst other items, the resolution instructed that following any necessary rule changes;

• each region appoints an Official responsible for organising within the region
• the National Officer responsible for organising should convene a national committee consisting of the aforementioned Regional Officials to critique the current organising strategy within the FBU, and endeavour to create a new strategy based on an ‘industrial organising approach’ and set out its targets and campaigns for the coming year
• the organising committee should meet quarterly and each region should submit an organising report to the relevant committees following EC business meeting
• the Regional Official responsible for organising should ensure the organising strategy is implemented and the expected work carried out alongside the Brigade Organisers.

However, today, organising is still done on a relatively ad-hoc basis. Whilst the Fair Pay or Fire Strike campaign undoubtedly made us work in a uniform way across the brigades, a similar approach has still not been seen on a day-to-day basis.

Conference instructs the Executive Council to consult brigade organisers and the responsible National Officer within three months of close of Conference 2023 to develop a strategy to assist in organising at the ‘grassroots level’ and to bring the substance of Greater Manchester’s 2022 resolution to fruition.

The strategy will be distributed and available for implementation by November 2023.