After two years, ICTU’s Stronger Together Anti-Racist Trade Unions & Workplaces Project is coming to the end of its first iteration. Before the team begins the important work of analysis and improvement, they are holding two final leadership courses for ethnic minority and migrant workers. 

The leadership course has proven popular over the duration of the Stronger Together project’s first two-year cycle. Over 60 migrant workers and workers from ethnic minority backgrounds have taken part and applied their learning in the workplace and within their unions. 

The last chance to take this course will be online on Monday 18th August, from 6.30pm to 8pm. 

The workshop is designed to help participants develop their talents and voice, and to equip them with the skills to apply these to trade union activism. Participatory in nature, the event will explore advocacy approaches, coalition building, and action planning for equality. Participants will also learn how to build their professional networks and capacity to become the leaders they aspire to be. 

It is with great pride Fórsa can say we have been well represented in each of the previous sessions of the leadership course, and we encourage any ethnic minority or migrant members to take part.

For a fuller picture of what the leadership training offers, you can read what Fórsa's Khalid El Busaidy thought of the course here.

If you are an ethnic minority or migrant member interested in taking part, please register by sending an email to antiracism@ictu.ie.

There will be a follow-on workshop for all previous participants of the leadership project in ICTU’s Dublin Office on Parnell Square, from 11am to 3pm Saturday 23rd August. This will be an informal and interactive session to explore how ethnic minority and migrant trade union members may enhance their visibility and progress their issues in trade union structures into the future. 

The session promises to be a valuable opportunity for networking, collaboration and planning for the future, with lunch provided on the day. 

To register, please send an email to antiracism@ictu.ie.

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