Other TUC courses
Please remember to inform your local ULR or a member of the ULF Project Team if you undertake any of these courses.
Cancer in the Workplace online
The course is delivered over 18 hours spread over six weeks
Cancer is a workplace issue. It now affects one in three people, and each year in the UK there are approximately 90,000 people of working age who receive a cancer diagnosis. The chances are that people in your business will be affected - either directly through being ill themselves or through a close relative having the disease.
This course will help reps explore issues to be faced if a union member is diagnosed with cancer and find out more about cancer in the workplace, its causes and effects.
What will the course help me to do?
The course will help you:
- explore issues to be faced if a union member is diagnosed with cancer
- find out more about cancer in the workplace, its causes and effects
- become familiar with employment rights and benefits and how they can be used
- to advise and inform members who may be diagnosed with cancer or who are carers
- build up the support of work colleagues and the employer towards a positive attitude that values the person
- look at best practice to improve policies and procedures to support employees from diagnosis to re-habilitation and for carers
- develop a plan to organise a cancer support project, campaign or event
- find out about key contacts and sources of information to be able to support and refer members to useful organisations
How do I apply?
If you are interested in applying for this course please see
http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/education/learn-4116-f0.cfm
Disability Champions@Work
This course will take approximately 30 hours to complete delivered over ten weeks.
Disability Champions come from a diverse range of backgrounds and a wide range of sectors. The common thread is a desire to see genuine equality for disabled people in the world of work.
During the training Champions will establish the role within their workplace by carrying out workplace activities involving their colleagues at work, other trade union reps and their management teams.The course will help you raise awareness of disability issues and provide practical solutions to help employers affect real change in the workplace.
What will the course help me to do?
This course will help you to:
- Negotiate reasonable adjustments
- Raise awareness of disability issues
- Conduct access audits of buildings, documents etc
- Liaise with external organisations
How do I apply?
If you are interested in applying for this course please see
http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/education/learn-1561-f0.cfm
Equality Reps
This course will take approximately 18 hours to complete.
The last few years have seen an increase in the amount and complexity of equalities issues at work. Union reps need to be able to keep up to date with equality legislation and handle issues such as flexible working, reasonable adjustments and discrimination. That's why unions are building the role of equality reps to help make workplaces fairer and more equality aware.
This training course will train equality reps in their new role and help them get to grips with the new and changing equality agenda. Equality reps can promote fairness in the workplace by raising the equality agenda among fellow workers and their own unions; by encouraging employers to make equality and diversity part of mainstream collective bargaining; by working with vulnerable workers and trying to ensure that every worker receives fair treatment.
What will the course help me to do?
This course will help you to:
- understand the role of equality rep
- find out more about discrimination law
- improve equality policies and agreements
- find out about good practice and share success stories
- develop negotiating skills
- promote equality in the workplace and the union
How do I apply?
If you are interested in applying for this course please see
http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/education/learn-2435-f0.cfm
Going Global: Trade Unions and International Development
The course will take approximately 30 hours to complete.
This course is an engaging introduction to the central role working people play in development. From export processing zones to ship breaking, it covers practical examples of the problems and opportunities facing workers across the globe.
The course explains key issues such as development, poverty, free trade and labour migration. From the United Nation's 'Millennium Development Goals' to the international trade union movement's promotion of 'Decent Work', this course explores the global agenda that addresses these issues.
Importantly, this eight week course demonstrates how, through trade union action in the workplace, in communities and internationally, workers in the global economy can secure fairness and justice at work instead of being forced to choose between exploitation and starvation.
What will the course help me to do?
This course will help you to:
- to explore the experience of working people in a global context
- to understand the role of trade unions in development
- to recognise different kinds of solidarity actions
- to help you work out what you can do to build interest and activism in your union
How do I apply?
If you are interested in applying for this course please see
http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/education/learn-2326-f0.cfm
Introduction to Pensions online
The online course is designed to take 18 hours. The course is divided into four sections, each of which will take around 4½ hours to complete.
The combination of the financial crisis, related threats to pensions schemes and changes being introduced by the Government have pushed pensions higher up everyone’s agenda than ever before. The need for advice and guidance on pensions has never been so important. Providing up-to- date knowledge and information on pensions is essential.
This course trains reps who will be active in their workplaces in helping colleagues understand the different aspects of pensions, how much they are likely to get in retirement and what they can do to improve their situation.
Introduction to Pensions Online will give you access to high-quality, engaging materials, specialist tutoring and support.
If you are a member of an occupational pension scheme, you will need two copies of your pension scheme booklet (members booklet), one for youself and the other for the course tutor. If you are not a member of such a scheme, please inform the tutor at the start of the course.
What will the course help me to do?
This course is specifically designed to provide participants with a greater understanding of the complex issues surrounding occupational pensions.
This course will help you to:
- Sources of income and retirement
- Comparing and contrasting pensions options
- Pensions calculations
- Understanding your own scheme
How do I apply?
If you are interested in applying for this course please see
http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/education/learn-593-f0.cfm
Trade Unions and the Environment
This course will take approximately 18 hours to complete.
Trade union representatives have a critical role to play in changing employer attitudes towards ‘greening’ the workplace and campaigning for a safer, healthier working and living environment.
Reps are achieving energy savings and huge cost benefits for their employers. Small steps, such as recycling paper or turning off lights, can make an enormous difference. Raising awareness and educating members will give them a better understanding of environmental issues.
What will the course help me to do?
This course will help you to:
- raise awareness of environmental issues
- understand workplace impact assessments
- understand environmental management systems
- review trade union policies and workplace strategies
- assess environmental information and sources
- deal with environmental priority issues
How do I apply?
If you are interested in applying for this course please see