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Health and Safety Up-Skilling

Is your position reliant on Health and safety knowledge and application or are you interested in a raise or promotion but need more skills around Health and safety? Perhaps you are simply looking to branch out and develop new skills in this area? The UNISON college has a number of different training avenues that can […]

Page on the UNISON College site.

Be the Reason

Your workplace won’t get better. Your pay won’t go up. Your voice won’t be heard. Unless you do something about it! We’re on the hunt for the next generation of UNISON reps ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow. We’ll train you and invest in you, to give you all the tools you need […]

Page on the UNISON East Midlands site.

Follow-on training

Even once you’ve completed the introductory training for your UNISON role, you’ll find that there is further training available to help you carry out your role more effectively. For some roles, you may need to attend follow-on training in order to stay active. For example, UNISON workplace reps (stewards) need to attend ERA reaccreditation training at […]

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Becoming active in UNISON

There are many different ways to be involved in UNISON. Some people are quite happy just to pay their subscriptions every month and leave it at that. Others become contacts or take on a role as workplace rep (steward), health and safety rep, or union learning rep (ULR). Still others get involved as a member […]

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Introductory training

We offer introductory training for new activists in UNISON. This is designed to give you the skills and knowledge you need to carry out your role with confidence. The length and format of the course depends on the role that you’ve decided to take on. Courses for the representative roles (workplace rep/steward, health and safety […]

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Let’s keep on learning

UNISON’s programme of learning for our members and training for our activists continues in a safe manner. Most of our core activist training programme is now available online, and we have expanded our online member learning programme massively over the last nine months. In this page we share some of the opportunities that you can […]

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UNISON learning for mental health

Over a year after the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK, we are all aware of the impact that the disease, and the measures introduced to deal with it, have had on our mental health. Regardless of whether our own personal experience has been one of stress, uncertainty, grief, isolation, or even boredom, few of us […]

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A-Z of UNISON Learning resources

On this page you will find a wide range of links, both to UNISON resources and to resources created and maintained by other organisations, which may be helpful to you. These are arranged alphabetically. You can use Ctrl+F (Command+F on a Mac) or your browser’s search function to look for a specific word or phrase. UNISON […]

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Training for workplace representatives

For reps who cannot attend face to face training due to work patterns or domestic commitments, there is an online option. Stage 1 The first three days of training for workplace […]

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Activist training

UNISON activists are volunteers who agree to take on one or more of the tasks that help keep the union running in the workplace or the branch. There’s a huge range of potential activist roles, as interesting and diverse as the UNISON members who do them. UNISON training is designed to give our activists the skills […]

Page on the UNISON College site.