Community Union learning representative regional conference was held at the Commodore Hotel Cwmbran on Wednesday 12th March 2008.
Community Union Learning Representative Regional Conference
The event held to bring together people who have contributed in some way as part of the Community ABLE project funded through the Wales Union Learning fund. This exciting initiative has helped, and is continuing to help to increase awareness of opportunities created through lifelong learning, mostly amongst steelworkers, steelworkers under threat of redundancy, and the wider communities throughout Wales. The programme has realised that for some this has been the first real opportunity for them to access learning.
| Dai Davies, MP for Blaenau Gwent |
Guest speakers at the event included Dai Davies MP for Baenau Gwent, John Griffiths AM Deputy Minister for skills, Roy Rickhuss national officer for Community..
| John Griffiths, AM, Deputy Minister for Skills, Vernon Lewis, Communitas Operations Manager Wales, Jeff Morgan, Communitas Project Officer |
The conference was closed out by Michael J Leahy General Secretary of Community, who emphasised the importance of the union learning agenda and the invaluable role of the learning reps both in the workplace and in the community in general. He also took great pleasure in announcing that Community had been successful in it’s bid for a new Wales union learning fund project to run from April 1st 2008 until March 31st 2010.
This new project “ Re-training for future employment – a skills approach” main aims will be to:-
To increase participation in learning and skills retraining programmes by people in the work place who are currently under treat of redundancy or maybe facing the prospect of redundancy.
To raise the standard of qualifications held by the workforce to enable them to quickly move back into employment without too many delays
To increase awareness of the benefits of learning whilst in work to individuals within Wales
| (l-r) Roy Rickhuss, Community National officer, Michael J Leahy, OBE, Community General Secretary |
Anyone wishing further information regarding this project or information about becoming a union learning representative please contact:
Jeff Morgan on 01495 306329 or E-Mail jeffmorgan@communits.eu.comLet Community know when you've changed address, so we can keep you up-to-date with news, events and action in your workplace