Staff at Brighton and Hove City Council are pulling out all the stops for Adult Learners’ Week (ALW 14th-20th May), supported by unionlearn Southern and Eastern Region, the TUC’s learning and skills organisation and site unions, GMB, CWU, FBU, PCS, Unison and Unite the Union.
Vitalis Ndeda, a London Union Learning Rep aged 46, has won a NIACE Regional Individual Award as part of the 20th Adult Learners’ Week 14 – 20 May 2011.
Merseylearn, a ground-breaking partnership between Merseytravel and its trade unions, is being recognised with an Inspiring Projects Award – sponsored by the Open University – as part of the 20th Adult Learners’ Week 14 – 20 May 2011.
The Policy Exchange report on public sector pay is “axe grinding†pure and simple and is propaganda in the tradition of reports by Joseph Goebbels says GMB
MARITIME UNION RMT today called on Scottish Government Ministers to give assurances that there will be no compulsory redundancies for members on the Gourock to Dunoon route following press reports and internal memos warning that the current tendering exercise - due to close on 25 May - could pose a serious threat to jobs.
The Scottish industrial heartlands of West Dunbartonshire and East Ayrshire have overtaken inner London boroughs to become Britain's worst employment blackspots, a TUC analysis reveals today (Monday).
David Cameron’s pledge to ensure ‘substantive’ changes to the NHS ‘reform’ bill should be probed to discover what he actually means.
This week thousands of Usdaw members will try out new learning opportunities at events organised to celebrate Adult Learners' Week which runs until 20 May.
A public inquiry will be the best route to uncover who led a cover up at Network Rail over the deaths of two school girls on an unsafe level crossing, the TSSA rail union said today.
Despite marathon talks that started in 2010 and despite the involvement of the Government's conciliation service ACAS, pilots in Virgin have been unable to reach agreement with the airline on an overdue pay and conditions settlement.