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13 December 2023 3:00pm–5:00pm
Have you seen the benefits of lifelong learning? Do you want to support members to engage with education? The Learning Café gives UNISON activists with an interest in learning and education an opportunity to come together alongside national member learning staff in a friendly, informal virtual setting via MS Teams.
23 January 2024 1:00pm–4:00pm
Join this online course to gain an understanding of what mindfulness is. Learn about starting to develop your own mindfulness routine. This course explores the ways mindfulness: helps to develop awareness and to live more fully in the present moment refocuses thinking tunes out past and future worries helps to be fully present in the […]
24 January 2024 9:30am–4:30pm
This is a full-day online course, which helps managers, supervisors and team leaders gain skills and tools to support team members who work in emotionally demanding roles and environments that bring them into daily contact with vulnerable customers, client or service users. Increasingly, front line teams are supporting growing numbers of customers with wide-ranging, and […]
7 February 2024 9:00am–1:00pm
This half-day course is part of our expanding set of courses on discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. It looks at the protection against discrimination in relation to sexual orientation. It covers how to interview a member sensitively; what constitutes legal harassment in this particular context including issues of ‘outing’ a worker and making false assumption; […]
22 January – 1 March 2024
Our online course for elected stewards delivers the same learning outcomes as the face-to-face Stage 1 + Stage 2 workplace representatives course combination.
13 March 2024 10:00am–4:00pm
UNISON Centre, 130 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AY
The course is appropriate for all LGBT+ branch officers or contacts who want to find out more about getting active in the branch and LGBT+ organising in UNISON. By the end of the course, you will be able to: Define the role of a LGBT+ branch officer or contact Know how to access resources, make […]
11 – 14 March 2024
An advanced employment law course delivered using video conference and interactive activities.
20 February – 26 March 2024
Our Organising for Health and Safety course is essential for new health and safety representatives. We have transformed our classroom based course into an online course, delivered by experienced TUC tutors. You will learn about health and safety legislation, including the law relating to risk assessment, and your employer’s responsibilities. It will help you work […]
4 April 2024 9:00am–1:00pm
This half-day course is part of our expanding set of courses on discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. It looks at the protection against discrimination in relation to ‘gender reassignment’ and the limitations of that protection in terms of gender identity generally. As well as covering what ‘gender reassignment’ might mean under the Act, the course […]
21 – 23 May 2024
It can be difficult to recognise when members have a realistic chance of proving disability discrimination and activists may lack confidence in this area. This course will give practical skills for discussing the matter with members and recognising possible cases. More generally, it will build skills of interviewing members and analysing evidence which can be […]
