Course summary

The TUC, in partnership with Ruskin College opened a Trade Union Education Centre in September 2008, located in Ruskin’s city centre site on Walton Street. The centre offers the following courses for Trade Union Reps, Health and Safety Reps and Union Learning Reps. We would be delighted if you could come and join us.

UNION REPS STAGE 1
Course content includes: role of the union rep; representing members; grievance and discipline; (1 day a week for 12 weeks) 12 Fridays from 21st September 2010

STEPPING UP – ADVANCED COURSE FOR UNION REPS
Course content includes: planning; organising; campaigning; collective bargaining;(1 day a week for 12 weeks) 12 Tuesdays from 21st September 2010

 HEALTH & SAFETY STAGE 1
Course content includes: role and functions of the health and safety rep; preventing accidents and ill health; (1 day a week for 12 weeks) 12 Mondays from 20th September 2010

NEXT STEPS FOR SAFETY REPS
Course content includes: building a safe and healthy workplace; keeping up-to-date on health and safety (1 day a week for 12 weeks) 12 Thursdays from 23rd September 2010

UNION LEARNING REPS STAGE 1
Course content includes: the role of the learning rep; identifying learning needs; developing learning strategies in the workplace; (1 day a week for 5 weeks) 5 Wednesdays from 24th September 2010

UNION LEARNING REPS STAGE 2
Course content includes: how to use the Unionlearn climbing frame tool to help members access learning opportunities (1 day a week for 5 weeks) 5 Wednesdays from 3rd November 2010

EQUALITY REPS COURSE
Course content includes: The role of the equality rep; discrimination law; policies and agreements; barriers faced by equality reps; taking up members’ problems (1 day a week for 3 weeks) 3 Thursdays from 18th November 2010

For further details contact:
Nigel Williams, TUC Programme Co-ordinator
Tel: 01865 517 810
Email: nwilliams@ruskin.ac.uk
or Rachel Hemstock, Secretary to the TUC Centre
Tel: 01865 517 845
Email: rhemstock@ruskin.ac.uk
Please send application forms to:
Rachel Hemstock, Ruskin College, Walton Street, Oxford, OX1 2HE.

Ruskin College has made an enormous contribution to the training of trade union activists for over a hundred years now, and that’s why I’m especially excited that Ruskin is working in partnership with TUC Education to deliver our programme to the union reps of Oxfordshire. I congratulate all Ruskin staff and students for the role they’ve played in building our great movement.

Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary.