Future @
Future@TSSA is young members organising for young members around young members issues and campaigns.More than just canon fodder!
For many employers, young workers represent an opportunity to reduce pay bills and increase profits, as young people are new to the world of work and unsure of their rights, employers gain further opportunities to reduces wage costs and impose working practices that older workers would be unprepared to accept.
At the TSSA Annual Conference in Scarborough, guest speaker Tony said that trade unionists should ask 3-questions:
What’s going on? Why is it happening? And what should be done?
As young members of the TSSA and working in the transport and travel industries, we know what’s going on! We know why young people are treated like this! We know the answer!
Future@TSSA provide the opportunity to organise around youth issues, to improve the understanding and trade union education, to build activism among under 35’s.
Action through self-organisation,
Equality through unity,
Support and education,
Parity with older workers
Workplace respect;
Right to strike and support other striking workers,
Re-nationalisation of the railways and the end of profiteering.
Future@ has its own website at http://www.futuretssa.org.uk
Future@TSSA has regionally based lay organisers who are there to support and encourage young members in your region:
| South East | Bekki |
| London | Tom |
| South West | Janna |
| South | Kate |
| North East | Vacant |
| North West | Emma |
| Midlands | Simon |
| Scotland | Ray |
| Northern Ireland | Vacant |
| Republic of Ireland | Vacant |
| Wales | Vacant |
Other articles in this section
- Meeting this Saturday – 18 July 2009
- Manchester Piccadilly Station Balcony Bar (above Burger King) 11:30.
- Meeting 26th July 2008, Walkden House. 12pm start.
- This meeting will be followed by a social event: YTBC.
- Cancelled Meeting : 28 July 2007
- Due to insufficient numbers the future@ meeting on July 28th has been cancelled.
- Meeting: Saturday 9 December 2006
- Premier Travel Inn
County Hall London
commencing at 12.30pm - Young members event - Saturday 9 December 2006, London
- TSSA’s young members’ group, called future@, will be having a pre-Christmas get together in London on Saturday 9 December 2006. The event will commence at around 12 noon, and finish at about 5pm. The venue is yet to be confirmed, but will be in central London.
- 2005 Annual General Meeting
- Future@tssa will be holding its annual general meeting on Saturday 2 April 2005 starting at 11am at Walkden House.
- Festivals 2005
- Over the last couple of years many TSSA members 35 or under have attended music festivals earning money for future@tssa, and so far through everyone’s hard work we have a healthy bank balance to fund future activities.
- Glastonbury 2003
- I attended my first music festival with Future@ at the August bank holiday festival in Reading last year and had a very enjoyable weekend, whilst wishing we were raising money for Future@ events - but we had to prove ourselves first.
- Music Festivals and the Workers’ Beer Company
- If you wanted to go to the 2003 Glastonbury music festival, I’m afraid you’re too late.
- Homelands dance music festival 2003
- Once a year the Homelands dance music festival descends on Winchester’s Matterley Estate. The first real music festival of the season runs from midday on the Saturday until seven the following morning.
- Campaigns
- It seems an all too common perception that young people simply don’t care about politics. It may be true that the electoral turn out of younger voters is generally lower than that of other sections of society, but does that make us apathetic?
- Background
- In 2001, Wayne Geoghegan, Executive Member for Yorkshire noticed something was missing from the TSSA. That something was young person involvement.
- Structure and local groups
- Future@ is currently a loosely formed network of members aged 35 and under who are either already active within TSSA or have expressed an interest in becoming more active through the opportunities presented by the Future@ project.
- 2002 Summer School
- The first Future@ training event was the 2002 TSSA summer school. The aim of the school was to help give younger members the skills, confidence and contacts to enable them to become more active within TSSA.
Other articles on this website about Future@
- 2008 November TSSA Journal: TSSA youth look to the future
- 60 young people in a room; likely outcome? In this case, a resolution to form a global network of transport unions’ youth movements to support each other and coordinate worldwide campaigns such as the global campaign launched on 8 October 2008 for decent work.
- 2008 June TSSA e-Journal: Pull a pint for punters
- Trade unionists and campaigners will once again be braving sun, rain and portaloos this summer to raise funds for the cause. They’ll do this by working at major music festivals, pulling pints for thirsty punters in one of the many Workers Beer Company bars. Keith Hatch investigates.
- 2008 June TSSA e-Journal: TSSA reps Conference
- ‘You are our future. Black and white, women and men, gay and straight, believers and atheists. Whoever you are, whatever you are, if you are prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with your colleagues to demand justice you’ve got a very important place in our union and in this great movement of ours.’
Manuel Cortés, TSSA assistant general secretary - 2006 November/December TSSA Journal: future@
- TSSA’s young members’ group, future@TSSA has a pre-Christmas London get together on Saturday 9 November. It starts at 12 noon and will finish at 5pm.
- 2003 November/December TSSA Journal: The future is bright @TSSA
- It is a common misconception that young people don’t care about politics or trade unionism. But young TSSA members such as Sajid Nawab are proving them wrong, as Hannah Leggett discovered
- 2003 July/August TSSA Journal: Living in America
- Late last year, I won the Eleanor Roosevelt Bursary award for my work setting up future@TSSA at the TUC’s Organise awards, along with a colleague from GPMU. The prize was a 16-day trip to Washington DC.
- 2002 September/October TSSA Journal: TSSA’s Future@ members in action
- Young members of future@ pulled pints at the August Bank Holiday Reading Festival in a new venture that could prove a winner.
- 2002 September/October TSSA Journal: Blackpool a great start for TSSA youth visitor
- Teenager Will Langstaff, a member for only 10 months, was TSSA’s Youth Visitor to TUC and described it as a great honour to be given the opportunity to voice his opinion. Here he describes his belief in TSSA’s commitment to young members and how he believes that there will always be a place for trade unions:
