Unions and the World of Work
Wales TUC has an exciting project teaching about trade unions on the school curriculum, Unions and the World of Work, and we’d like to encourage you to get involved.
Comprehensive school children will learn how unions campaign for fairness, equality and social justice and how our successes have lifted workers out of poverty, delivered safer work places and secured changes to law to which have benefited everyone – things like guaranteed holiday time and maternity rights.
Want to find out more? Click for information on the pilot.
UNISON Cymru Wales would like members to volunteer to go into schools and help bring the lessons on Unions and the World of Work alive with their own experience. Training is provided.
Interested in volunteering to help deliver these trade union focused lessons? Click to volunteer
Inspired by our exhibition, UNISON and the Welsh Labour Movement?
We are planning a number of exciting next steps for our exhibition in our Cardiff office, including producing education packs for junior and secondary schools and facilitating school visits.
We are already talking about how the Swansea office might be redecorated to reflect South West Wales radical local history and heroes.
What can branches do?
Before our exhibition, our Cardiff office was a bland space, nothing said “trade union” about it. We want our exhibition to inspire others including branches on how they can decorate their offices putting their stamp on it. Is there a wall that could be transformed with a local radical historical event or the branch’s history? Or it might be showing the branch taking action.
Delegates to Policy Weekend were shown mock-up images of how a branch office wall might be transformed.
Cardiff and Vale Health branch
- Example 1, traditional presentation of photographs on wall
- Example 2, photograph blown-up to wall-size
- Example 3, photograph blown-up to wall-size with applied graphics
Torfaen branch
Cwm Taf Local Government Area branch
- Photograph blown up to wall-size. Example used to show image quality must be high enough to sustain this transformation (this one isn’t).
Want to know more about how you might transform an office wall in this way? Contact Alastair Gittins a.gittins@unison.co.uk