Unite Working Students (Part II)

Unite’s Working Students Campaign (‘WSC’) is a positive and innovative development which can be built upon and improved by the Australian trade union movement with the leadership of the ACTU. Many organisations are working very hard to organise young people, for instance the Youth Unionist Network in Victoria, Unite (Australia) in the fast food and retail sectors, and the work of the National Union of Workers in market research. However, what each of these efforts lacks is the ability to comprehensively organise young workers across many industries.

Unite’s Working Students Campaign (Part I)

The Unite, the largest United Kingdom trade union, is campaigning directly to organise thousands of student workers across tertiary campuses in the UK. The Working Students Campaign (‘WSC’) is an innovative way of  organising a new generation of workers, and is something that should be implemented by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. The campaign basically involves allowing students to join Unite on-line for £10 per year, and organising students into campus societies who can campaign for respect, rights and better conditions in the workplace while using the collective resources of Unite.