May
14
SWU Conference 2024 – solidarity, activism, and social justice
Social workers, students, and trade unionists from across the UK gathered in Manchester to discuss activism and solidarity.
Category: Union Contacts
Feb
19
SWU Conference 2024: Trade Unionism & Activism – Links with Social Work
A FREE Training & Development Day for Social Workers and Social Work Students in Manchester on 27th April 2024.
Oct
03
SWU Union Contacts examine campaign successes
Learn about successful campaigns that have been supported by Campaign Collective, including several led by SWU members.
Sep
06
SWU Union Contacts Training and Development Day – 23 September 2023
It’s not too late to register for SWU’s Training & Development Day in Manchester on Saturday 23rd September 2023.
Apr
03
Meet Calum Gallacher, SWU’s newly appointed Assistant General Secretary
In my view Trade Unionism and Social Work are markedly intertwined as social movements, both are concerned with the challenge of inequalities while seeking change and improvement by redress of power imbalances.
Mar
24
SWU and BASW England at the Birmingham COMPASS Jobs Fair 2023
New SWU Assistant General Secretary announced and “How in 2023 do we improve on stress and working conditions for UK social workers?”
Dec
20
What sort of world do we want to live in?
SWU Chair Dave Callow shares his reflections on the importance of unions and hope at the beginning of the 2022 festive season. In my first blog as chair of SWU, I would like to begin by thanking all the social Read more
Oct
11
John McGowan, General Secretary of the Social Workers Union provides an overview of the complexities of implementing strike action
Despite the regular call out for strike from some BASW and SWU members; unfortunately, there isn’t an automatic legal right to strike in the UK. Difference between British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and Social Workers Union (SWU) Membership of Read more
Jul
29
SWU members invited to Union Contact Induction on 10th September 2022
Are you a member of SWU, and would you like to become a SWU Union Contact in your workplace or amongst your university cohort? If so, our next Group Induction Day is Saturday 10th September from 9.30am-3.30pm in Central Birmingham. Lunches and refreshments are provided Read more
Jul
26
Who actually benefits from the privatisation of public services?
SWU National Organiser Carol Reid comments on the continuing wave of privatisation and loss of public sector services A recent announcement that the Department for Education (DfE) has awarded £7million to Frontline for the provision of “training and development for council children’s Read more