Working through the cold weather

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 06:21

I don’t know about you but I’m not minding this cold weather too much. I know a lot of people are struggling but I have to say that I much prefer a bright cold day rather than rain or even sweltering heat. Yesterday I travelled up to Birmingham for meetings with the Midlands TUC and West Midlands Unison. Apart from delays to the service the scenery was fantastic. The cold snap certainly doesn’t allow you the chance for sluggishness.

My meetings were also very productive. I used the festive period to put the final touches to our 2009 campaign strategy and now it is a case of meeting our union and community partners to discuss our plans. In addition to our national plan we are devising strategies for each individual region and supporting union. In some cases we are creating work plans for unions at a regional level. We’ll be releasing more details of this over the next few weeks.