Over the last 15 years, there has been a significant increase in adults who access learning opportunities through their unions a new report has found.
The findings of the report impact of unions on learning and skills policy and practice: a review of the research were presented yesterday at a seminar organised by unionlearn in central London.
The union-led learning initiative at East Coast Trains is proving a huge success as more and more members and employees are signing-up for the courses on offer.
The aim of this joint unionlearn/Acas workshop is to promote best practice in agreeing…
The aim of this joint unionlearn/Acas workshop is to promote best practice in agreeing…
This is the sixth in a series of newsletters that has been produced to keep unionlearn staff, unions, project workers, union learning reps (ULRs) and other reps up to speed about: developments in the area of a publicly funded careers service that will affect existing structures and networks, how unionlearn is responding to the changes to ensure that union learners at all levels receive the best possible information and advice to help them progress in learning and work and other news, developments and resources that will help support members as learners.
Award winning actress Julie Walters visited the GMB led Learning Resource centre at Hollingdean waste depot in Brighton , the visit was arranged by GMB ULR Wes Lee Emond who described Julie as “an inspiration to many people. “ The centre is run in partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council and offers a wide range of courses to council employees, ULRS play a key role encouraging and supporting hard to reach learners back into education.
The aim of this joint unionlearn/Acas workshop is to promote best practice in agreeing union-employer strategies to optimise the use of skills in the workplace. Using skills successfully can achieve improvements in working practices, job satisfaction, organisational performance and productivity.
The Community and Trade Union Learning Centre on the Olympic Park celebrated World Book Day by taking learning into Marylands Children’s Surestart Centre. Staff from the centre, run by unionlearn with Southern and Eastern Region TUC ran two workshops for children and parents, focusing on numeracy and literacy skills. They also organized a book swap club and distributed Quick Reads – short books for adults.
Today unionlearn and the Campaign for Learning are hosting a conference to celebrate the work unions and employers are doing to help build working communities.
Well done and congratulations to Lucy Lanaghan and Gillian Hindson, both Union Learning Representatives (ULRs) in Waterview Park, (WvP) Washington. They have achieved the status of NHS Health Champions and were presented with their certificates by the Mayor of Sunderland.