Travelling to Cheltenham this morning to speak at an event organised by the TU studies unit at Gloscat . The event is focussed on how unions can maximise the organising and recruitment potential of the work we are doing around lifelong learning and skills.

This is an area of work unions and the TUC are becoming particularly interested in. A recent TUC report showed that just under 60 per cent of recently surveyed Union Learning Reps thought union membership had increased in their workplace as a result of the work the union had done on learning and skills. Over two-thirds said this sort of work had improved the perception of the union amongst members and non-members, and nearly three-quarters said it had improved union/employer relations.