by URTU Admin | Oct 19, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
In the UK someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 2 minutes. That adds up to 700 people a day, which is a staggering 255,500 people a year. The condition kills somewhere in the region of 500 people a week from its complications resulting in about 26,000 deaths every...
by URTU Admin | Sep 29, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
In September 2020 Paul Lane, our Health and Safety Rep at Wincanton Magor, completed his Introduction to Excel training organised by URTU Learning in partnership with NILC Training. Paul found out about the training through his URTU Learning Project Worker and decided...
by URTU Admin | Sep 14, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
Back in March the country saw the start of an unprecedented emergency forcing us into a lockdown situation. The lockdown was deemed necessary to protect the NHS and those most at risk in society from Covid-19. During this time, we saw dramatic changes to how we live,...
by URTU Admin | Aug 6, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
No, it’s not the ghost of Norman Tebbit exhorting us to get on our bikes to look for work but the latest initiative from the Government to help combat obesity and ill health. In May of this year Boris Johnsons Government unveiled the document entitled; “Gear Change. A...
by URTU Admin | Jul 15, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
Joe McGuigan has joined the URTU Learning team. He was one of the first Union Representatives to be able to gain his Union Learning Representative (ULR) certificate way back in 1999, whilst he was working for North East Co-Op. Since 2003 Joe then worked as a TUC...
by URTU Admin | Jul 10, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
When lockdown was first announced it left many of us who work in the education sector wondering how we were going to continue to promote and deliver learning. We had played around with the idea of online learning with limited success in some areas. This however was a...
