Spent the morning today sitting in on the TUC's General Council meeting. Primary focus of the meeting was to review progress against the Strategic Review which the TUC carried out last year. One of the key elements of the review was how the TUC can develop its capacity to support union efforts around organising and recruitment (I've written elsewhere in this blog about the challenges faced by unions in building their membership and strengthening workplace organisation), which is the area of work I lead on.

In addition to the session on the strategic review, the meeting also heard updates on the situations at MG Rover and the BBC from Tony Woodley and Jeremy Dear respectively. Their contributions put the wider strategic discussions in a great context - building our membership isn't an end in itself, but a crucial element of ensuring unions have the strength they need to represent union members (and their families) as effectively as possible.