| GOVERNMENT MINISTER APPLAUDS FLAGSHIP COMMUNITAS PROJECT | | Lord
Mackenzie of Luton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the
Department of Work and Pensions recently visited Communitas and the
Better West Midlands Project. The project, funded by ESF co-financing
arrangements, and run by a consortium of trade unions, helped over
5,000 people made redundant by manufacturing firms return to work. The
trade union consortium recently successfully tendered for another
project delivering support to redundant manufacturing sector workers.
Lord Mackenzie indicated that trade union led partnerships were the way
forward with respect to redundancy support and commented:
“This is a fantastic project that fits four square with government policy”
| | To hear Lord Mackenzie speak about the Better West Midland project click here |
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Aldwarke on course for learning |  | Hundreds
of workers at Aldwarke Cast Products in Rotherham will now be able to
access learning opportunities following the opening of the Minerva
Learning Centre at the plant.
| | Read More... | | Image reproduced with permission from the Rotherham Advertiser. |
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COMMUNITY UNION
LEARNING
REP WINS STUC LEARNING REP OF THE YEAR 2008 | | We are delighted
to announce that Community Union Learning Rep Audrey McJimpsey, from RSBi
(Blindcraft) Glasgow, is the recent recipient of the prestigious STUC Helen
Dowie Award for Lifelong Learning 2008. This annual award was established in
2006 to commemorate the life of Helen Dowie, an active trade unionist from Fife,
whose life was devoted to supporting others through the trade union movement,
and to support the development of education and learning in
Scotland.
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'The Inclusive Society,
Social
Mobility
in 21st Century Britain'
On Tuesday 8 January, the Rt
Hon David Blunkett MP launched a major new
pamphlet. Read More... |
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