Never has the relationship between our Students’ Unions and Trade Unions been more important.  With the recent Trade Union bill aiming to remove the potency of the organisation who are there to defend workers rights, and the Green Paper on Higher Education contextualising Students’ Unions in light of this, we can only expect the situation to get worse with regards to the organisation put in place to defend our rights.

Magnetic Ideals are working on a research project in collaboration with Students’ Unions, National Union of Students and Trade Unions Congress that will look at the current activities happening between Trade and Students’ unions and how they will work together in the future.

We are interested in case studies of how this has happened locally, and interest from any Students’ Unions or Trade Unions in helping us construct a survey on this topic that will help us better understand the current climate of joint working between these different groups and how they can work together better in the future.

If you are interested in being involved please contact heather@magneticideals.org

Further information on the project aims, objectives and timescales available here.