Spent the afternoon planning how best to take forward the development of the TUC Organising Academy with Carl Roper, the Academy's new Director, and Margaret Stephenson from Newcastle College.

Also met up with Paul Willman from Said Business School who the TUC has commissioned to write a report on union resources. One of the key features of the report is likely to be an analysis of the withdrawal of employer support (in terms of facilities, time off for reps etc) for unions over the past two decades.