TUC Midlands Festival of Learning 2024 Where: TUC Midlands, 47 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3TH When: Thursday 21 November: 10.00 – 16.00 TUC Midlands Update Catherine Lockyer (First Actuarial): Helping members to understand their pensions Brett Sparkes (Unite the Union): Supporting members on Universal Credit Five-piece chess Julia Jones: The implications of the new Labour government on […]
Learning News
October marks Black History Month in the across the UK. Below you can find resources and links from UNISON East Midlands. Regional Black History Month Event Regional Black Members Newsletter UNISON Leicestershire County Branch Learning Coordinator Katharine Friedmann has compiled the below useful links and articles for members across Leicestershire and the East Midlands. This […]
Union Learning Reps (ULR’s) in Nottinghamshire recently ran a course on CV Writing and Interview Skills which had over 157 applications from members. From this we have started to develop a partnership with the National Careers Service in the East Midlands who can offer a wide range of education for adults who may be interested. […]
UNISONs brand new National Learning Newsletter will be launched for the first time on Tuesday 24th September. This will hopefully go out every other month (6 a year). New members are automatically opted-in to this newsletter when they register however older members will need to opt themselves in manually. Please visit the national website for […]
The results of our annual learning survey for 2024 are now available. Conducted as part of Learning at Work Week over 2500 East Midlands members took part and let us know what they want to learn and what they think of UNISON’s learning offer. Key Points: 42% state that UNISON’s learning offer provides ‘real added […]
If you have heard of the role but not quite sure what they do or what’s involved, come to our webinar to find out more. The session will run from 12.30 – 1.15 on 16 July.
Are you going to National Delegate Conference (NDC) this year? Motion 8 (Union Learning is Central to Skills and Development for UNISON Members and Activists) Mentions the East Midlands success in engaging with the employers through promotion learning charters. We would like to encourage any East Midlands members attending NDC this year to speak on […]
The work of the region’s Union Learning Reps (ULRs) has once again been recognised by the TUC with Loughborough University’s Collina Angus winning the 2021 Award for ULRs. Collina become a ULR two years ago after taking part in the reading challenges organised by the previous ULR. But when she stood down Collina came forward […]
The region is celebrating helping 300 members take the skills challenge to test their Maths and English skills with 150 signing up for online Functional Skills courses.