Stephen Craig Email & Phone Number

Stephen Craig is National Development Officer with Unite the Union (UK), responsible for learning, and skills activities at public and private sector level. Previously, a Trade Union Studies/Industrial Relations Lecturer in Further and Higher Education, he has taught at the ILO Training Centre in Turin and was researcher on several learning and skills-related reports. For over twenty years he worked as a Project Manager on several national/international learning and skills initiatives and was National Officer for Strategy Education & Organising with UCATT the Construction union. A Full-Time Official in union’s covering the maritime industry, education and construction sectors, Stephen has progressed skills and joint union-management programmes with companies including EDF, Fords, BA, BP and Skanska. He has served twice as a Workers Representative at the ILO on the Drafting Group for the ILC ‘Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work’ (2021) report and also ILO Recommendation 204 on the ‘Transition from the informal to formal economy’. He is Trade Union Coordinator (Ethical Trade Initiative); Advisory Board member of the Work & Equalities Institute (University of Manchester Business School); and on the Unite Environment Taskforce.He works very closely with Building Workers International (BWI, the Global Union Federation) on issues such as Multi National Corporations; supporting migrant workers in Qatar; Climate Change and Just Transition.He coached at Connah Quay Football Academy and is a UEFA ‘C’ Licence Football Coach.All views my own.