General Secretary's Welcome

Michael J. Leahy, OBE General Secretary Community

General Secretary Michael J Leahy, OBE

Hello and Welcome to the Community union.

2008 is an exciting time for Community and for our members.

It has already seen Community secure a £12 billion guarantee for the pensions of British Workers, including our members who have fought for justice for over 5 1/2 years.

This year Community has opened the Member Service Centre, a radical new way of providing union coverage to our members. Advice and guidance is now available to all members through our free phone number 0800 389 6332.

Or members can ask a question through our website at the touch of a button.

Community represents members across a range of industries, from Steel and Wire to Footwear and Textiles, from Plastics to Betting Shops and from the NLBD to Social Workers.

All these workers have joined together to share the benefits of collective action and trade unionism. Community can negotiate on Pay and Conditions, Health and Safety, reasonable hours and discipline and grievance representation.

Community can do this because we have a better ratio of Full-time Officers to Staff than any other union

 

Community has also expanded and revamped our benefits. These include:

As well as these new and enhanced benefits, Community members will also continue to enjoy a host of other benefits and services that we believe will provide the best package of any UK trade union. Not least of these is the education and training support that Communitas provides to members whether they want to enhance their career development whilst they are in work or whether they are facing the prospect of redundancy and need support to find a new job. No other UK trade union provides the service to its members that Community does through Communitas.

But trade unionism in the 21st Century cannot just be about supporting members at work, although that will continue to be central to what we do. It must also be about ensuring that we are seen as a force for good in the communities in which our members live.