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...
by URTU Admin | Jun 25, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
Lock-down story – Virtual classroom Just prior to lock-down I was caught speeding, this resulted in me receiving the dreaded letter of intended prosecution. By this time lock-down had started so I wrongly thought that the police would have other things on their...
by URTU Admin | Jun 8, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
As part of Diabetes Awarness Week, we have interviewed Mark Ireland who is a driver at Wincantons Magor. I did a Level 2 distance learning course in Diabetes Management. I found out about the course through the WULF URTU Learning project worker visiting my workplace...
by URTU Admin | May 14, 2020 | Project News, Union Learning, URTULearning
We have done a question and answer session with Paul Stokes, an URTU member working for FTX Logistics around his learning journey. What is your role within FTX? FTX Logistics Limited are contracted to provide heavy lifting equipment for the British Army, this includes...