Minimum Wages and Pay Equity in Europe: Understanding the role of pay bargaining
LLAKES events is holding a seminar on this subject on Wednesday 23 January 2013, from 3.00 to 4.30 pm, in Room 728 at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way. To register, please contact...
View ArticleEngineering should be women’s work
I am delighted to see Sarah Sillars’ appointment as the new Chief Executive of the Sector Skills Council SEMTA. It is extremely encouraging to see a woman in this important position, especially one...
View ArticleNew TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady talks to the BBC about unionlearn
Just before Christmas we wrote about Frances O’Grady visiting the learning centre at the Hollingdean depot in Brighton. The BBC went along with Frances to film the event for thier “Breasfast” show and...
View ArticleLearning agreements engage employers
Pretty much everyone agrees that continuing to learn is a good thing. Unions work hard at helping people in their workplace to take steps to learning new skills, whether this is taking a course in ICT...
View ArticleApprenticeships are more than a numbers game
The decrease in the numbers of apprenticeships for young people has received a good bit of attention in the last few days and rightly so. Many commentators have issued statements of concern, but as...
View ArticleCould the ‘make skills work’ and ‘green skills’ agendas come together?
Here’s something that I have been thinking for a while. Arguably, unionlearn’s agenda regarding skills utilisation or what we have called ‘making skills work’ is about empowering workers to make the...
View ArticleMaths4Us
NIACE in partnership with unionlearn and others have launched an initiative called Maths4Us encouraging people to take up and champion learning maths as an adult. We all use maths every day, often...
View ArticleAnnual shortfall of 40,000 STEM graduates: could technician registration be a...
This week is National Science and Engineering Week. This blog post shows some of the work unionlearn is doing to promote the STEM subjects. The news that the UK faces an annual shortfall of 40,000...
View ArticleCatapiller Peterlee Apprentice Awareness Day
As part of National Apprentice Week 2013 Catapiller Peterlee decided to run and host an event showing their appreciation for all things apprentices. This event took place On Thursday 14th March at the...
View ArticleRobert Halfon MP addresses unionlearn
Below is the text of a speech given to unionlearn’s Youth Unemployment conference by Robert Halfon, Conservative MP for Harlow. I’m delighted to be here at Congress House. I am a Conservative MP and a...
View ArticleApprenticeships and the value of union membership
We asked a group of apprentices what being a member of a union means to them – this is what they told us:
View ArticleAbdul’s Story
Abdul Rawat was a young man who turned his life around thanks to an apprenticeship with Kirklees Council. As unionlearn celebrates the official launch of our pre-apprenticeship programme at Glen Parva...
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