- Conference
- 2004 National Lesbian & Gay Conference
- Date
- 30 July 2004
- Decision
- Carried
The 2002 Employment Act gave lifelong Learning Advisers and Union Learning Representatives the same statutory rights as Stewards and Health and Safety Representatives. During the same year, UNISON rolled out a Union Learning Fund project aimed at developing UNISON’s capacity to organise around learning via a network of well trained and supported learning advisers and representatives.
Conference recognises that lifelong learning helps deliver greater equality of opportunity for some of the most disadvantaged groups within the union, the workplace and society in general. UNISON is committed to ensuring that as many members as possible have access to opportunities for learning at work. Conference notes that such opportunities boost the confidence, skills and knowledge of members.
Conference believes that:
1.UNISON’s lifelong learning programme provides an opportunity to recruit and organise around a positive agenda and develop the whole union;
2.Lesbian and Gay members can make a vital contribution to this agenda as Lifelong Learning Advisors, Union Learning Representatives and Lay Tutors;
3.Lesbian and Gay members can personally benefit from learning new skills.
Conference instructs the National Lesbian and Gay Committee to:
A.Promote how members can become Lifelong Learning Advisors, Union Learning Representatives and Lay Tutors;
B.Encourage Regional and Branch Groups to work with their organising and learning/education committees (name varies depending on region) and appropriate officers responsible for developing the learning agenda to consider opportunities to increase the number of lesbians and gay members gaining and delivering opportunities to learn.