Welcome to ULearn

WELCOME TO THE 2023 edition of ULearn. In this issue you’ll find just a few examples from the huge range of learning that has taken place across UNISON over the last 12 months. As UNISON College marks its first year, it’s clear that learning in our union is going from strength to strength.

From developing our activists through organising academies and leadership schools, to empowering our members to deal with the cost of living crisis, UNISON College has been working to help deliver the union’s key objectives – and make life better for working people. It’s particularly good to see how members are gaining confidence to become activists through their participation in union learning.

So many stories in this magazine show us how UNISON members and activists have been using their own skills, concerns, and interests to help their colleagues.

This will be my last ULearn as head of UNISON Learning and Organising Services before I retire. It’s been a pleasure to work with so many enthusiastic and talented people in all parts of UNISON, and I’d like to say a huge thank you to all of you.

Teresa Donegan, Head of Learning and Organising Services

Learning activists and staff shaped UNISON’s learning strategy for the year ahead at the 2022 ULR conference.