Learning and organising
Union Learning Representatives
The network of Union Learning Representatives represents, for unions, the possibility to make learning a key part of the union offer and build active workplaces with skilled and committed reps and members.
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NEW Organising for Learning - Building union organisation through learning [Case study pack]. This pack is for trade union reps, organisers, educationalists and anyone interested in organising and learning in the workplace. Find out more
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 FILM - Kate and Umar’s Incredible Learning journey.
This film provides trade union reps with a tool to recruit and encourage newcomers and current members to get involved with learning in the workplace. www.unionlearn.org.uk/kateandumar
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Unionlearn have produced a new range of organising materials to accompany the Kate and Umar film. It aims to promote trade union membership. They include: Becoming a rep leaflet, Joining a union leaflet, Joining a union poster, Learning centre organising checklist. Find out more
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Two pieces of research Union learning, Union recruitment and Organising and Organise to learn and learning to organise, was launched by unionlearn.
The new research shows how learning officers endorse the role of unionlearn in promoting the links between union learning and organisation, and in helping to make union learning a core trade union activity.
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The WinWin campaign is about demonstrating the value of getting involved in learning. As part of the WinWin campaign, if you recruit a new learner at your local centre
(those involved in the pilot) you will receive a 1GB USB memory stick. Find out more about the WinWin campaign.
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11 December 2009
Save our maritime skills
Maritime unions RMT and Nautilus are running a campaign calling upon the Government to provide long-awaited support for the training and employment of UK seafarers. Britain is an island nation which relies on ships and seafarers for more than 90 per cent of imports and exports, but the maintenance of maritime expertise is in danger – particularly given the recent announcement of plans for major redundancies by one of the largest employers.
27 August 2009
Unions for All
This new leaflet from the Northern TUC explains how trade unions work in the workplace and in the community.
Northern
27 August 2009
Port Vale FC and Unite give community learning a Kick Start
On the 6th August there was a successful learning centre launch at Port Vale football club. A presentation was given by Arthur Emanuel - Unite regional Officer – at the new centre ...
Midlands
7 July 2009
Management Skills & Learning Centres
Union Learning Centres have been the life blood of providing a wide range of courses to their members and indeed their employer groups, providing access to Literacy & Numeracy skills, ICT training, vocational and recreational courses...
Midlands
6 May 2009
Unions Brokering Management Skills - Phase 2
Working with TUC/unionlearn affiliates, this project offers the opportunity to develop management skills as part of the union workplace learning agenda. Through a series of one-day workshops or full awards we aim to engage the employer in the take up of management training for employees ...
Midlands
6 May 2009
Black and Ethnic Workers into Management
Back by popular demand the FREE one day workshop - Black and Ethnic Workers into Management will be run on the
Midlands
23 March 2009
Integrating union learning and organising strategies – Research Paper 8
Research commissioned by unionlearn, suggests that unions are increasingly promoting a relationship between learning and organising at a national union level. The research which was carried out by the Working Lives Research Institute is based on a survey of national officers of selected unions and case studies based on their workplaces and branches.
1 December 2008
Get on and build a stronger union where you work!
Are you a workplace union representative or activist?
Are you interested in making the union stronger and more effective where you work?
Would you like to get new skills and additional resources to help you to recruit more members, get more people involved, develop new reps and raise the profile of the union?
If you've answered yes to any or all of the above – READ ON!
4 July 2008
Organising for Learning - Building union organisation through learning [Case study pack]
This pack is for trade union reps, organisers, educationalists and anyone interested in organising and learning in the workplace. Includes seven union case studies on organising and learning in the workplace and a unionlearn/TUC resource, Organising for Learning, for use in the workplace. This will help you to achieve a more active membership with more ULRs.
8 June 2007
Unionlearn director congratulates CWU on mainstreaming union learning
Unionlearn director Liz Smith congratulated the Communication Workers Union on agreeing a number of important new policy and rule changes that will bring union learning into the mainstream of the union's structures and democratic processes at their Annual Conference in Bournemouth this week.
