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Network Journal 2008 Issue 1 Jan/Feb |
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Companies
Conferences
Editorial
Equality
Get Involved
Health and Safety
Letters
Lifelong Learning
News In Brief
Pay
Pensions
People and Events
Recruitment and Organising
Rights at work
Training
Young Workers
Companies
Conferences
Editorial
You make the difference
Last year was a great one for Usdaw and 2008 has already got off to a good start with the 2007 National Organising Awards deservedly putting our reps in the spotlight.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Equality
Agency Workers
Labour MP Andrew Miller is working with Usdaw and other trade unions to pass a Bill in the UK Parliament to protect agency workers, writes political officer Ruth George.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Equalities news in brief
The news in brief.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Helping members cope with disability
Usdaw is currently helping with a project being run by the TUC to find out more about disabled workers and sickness absence policies, writes equalities officer Ruth Cross.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
International Women’s Day March 8
Every year on March 8th thousands of International Women’s Day events occur all around the world. It’s an important day in the trade union calendar as it helps to focus attention on how far we have come in the struggle to achieve equality for women. From winning the right to vote in 1928 (for all women) to the implementation of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 there is no doubt some decisive victories have been won for women by women over the last century.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Involvement of all is key to union success
Reps sometimes ask why the union organises events for certain sections of our membership, events for instance such as the black members weekend workshop or weekend schools for women members, writes equalities officer Jo Bird.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
New maternity & parental rights pack
As always Usdaw is to update its popular Maternity & Parental Rights pack this coming April.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Speaking up on flexible working
Many of our members who are either parents of young or disabled children or carers have made use of the right to request flexible working since its introduction in 2003.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Get Involved
Online help keeps you informed
The Driver’s Handbook was the most popular download from the union’s website last year with more than 26,000 people taking advantage of this comprehensive and easy-to-read guide.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Health and Safety
Letters
30 years celebration
Sarah Hughes, area organiser, Redditch office
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
An organised farewell
Jacqueline Martin, Edinburgh and District Tesco G15
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Bob Archer: 30 Years
David Taylor, secretary, Ashby Northern Dairies E20
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
County Award
Cameron Philpot, Chesterfield and District PT F101
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Dutch Courage
Steve Maundrill, area organiser, Leeds Office
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
HSE cuts get political
Toby Lindsay, health and safety rep, Northern Ireland Tesco Distribution K180
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Learner driver triumph
Wayne Morris, Bradford Grattan F017
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Positive new rep
Ronnie Hawkes, North East Morrisons Distribution F81
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Tamworth co-op blooms
Darren Matthews, area organiser, Redditch Office
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Tribute to Graham
Simon Vincent, executive council
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Working through breast cancer
Mary Jennings, NW Retail No.3 K76
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Lifelong Learning
Courses to aid former milkmen
Well-known activist and learning rep Hayley Pickles has helped secure a £100,000 grant to retrain 95 local dairy workers who were made redundant last year.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Facing the future
Redundancy is difficult to deal with at any time but workers at Boots can be more optimistic thanks to on-site lifelong learning projects – Network takes a look.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Lifetime chance
Would you like to study full-time with the help of an Usdaw scholarship?
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
New era at British Bakeries
Lifelong learning is helping create a brand new batch of skills for workers at the British Bakeries site in Mossend, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
The skills pledge
Usdaw is working with its army of learning reps to encourage more retail employers to sign up to the Skills Pledge.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
News In Brief
Pay
Pensions
People and Events
Activist-in-depth
Network meets up with one of Usdaw’s 10,500-strong army of reps and finds out what life is like at the sharp end. In this issue North West division’s Lorna Young answers our questions.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Moving forward
It was a record-breaking year for the union in 2007 but there are plenty of challenges ahead, says general secretary John Hannett who answers Network’s questions.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Recruitment and Organising
Rights at work
Premier appointment
Usdaw took its campaign to give workers greater protection when their company is sold all the way to Downing Street in December when general secretary John Hannett led a delegation to meet the prime minister Gordon Brown.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Training
Environment course online for reps
Unionlearn has developed a new online course to help union reps raise awareness of environmental issues in the workplace.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
The right course
Usdaw provides its reps with a comprehensive range of education and training courses. Network talked to Morrisons reps in the Scottish division after one of their get-togethers.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
Young Workers
Progress report
Two young reps from Tesco made such an impact in their workplaces they both won their divisional nominations for the most promising new activist at the 2007 national Organising Awards.
20 February 2008 [Full Story]
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