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Interactive learning

Here you will find short bite-sized pieces of learning and longer courses. Each piece of learning is self-contained and contains a mixture of text, video and quizzes. They last between 20 and 45 minutes and can be returned to as many times as you like.

Ethnicity monitoring
Tackle racist discrimination at work by negotiating with your employer for better ethnic monitoring and reporting on pay, training, promotion and more.
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Reasonable adjustments passports
Learn how reasonable adjustments make working life better and fairer for disabled people.
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Managed by Artificial Intelligence
This learning will help you understand the impact that artificial intelligence can have at work and explain how you as a workplace rep can get the best deal for your members.
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How to take action safely and effectively
Despite some of the most repressive laws on industrial action in the western world, it’s legal to strike in the UK – but only if strict requirements are met. This guide will help you understand your rights and support action safely and legally.
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Solidarity hub
A set of online interactive learning resources designed to help you support members during industrial action.
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Flexible working
This learning will help you negotiate a flexible working policy with your employer, and support members with their requests. 
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Too hot, too cold: How to protect workers from extreme temperatures, and fight climate change
This interactive guide will help workplace reps protect workers from extreme temperatures, and fight climate change.
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Long COVID
New guide for workplace reps on long covid.
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Organising course for union reps
An online interactive learning resource designed to provide union reps with the skills and knowledge needed to build the strength of their unions.
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Harmful gambling - guidance for reps
It’s the fastest growing addiction in the UK, and impacts not only the lives of individuals, but their families, communities, colleagues and workplaces. Find out how to spot and support someone affected by harmful gambling.
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Domestic Violence
This interactive learning will help workplace reps support members affected by domestic violence.
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Supporting learners
This interactive guide will help workplace reps support learners with learning.
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Climate change proof your workplace: Interactive guide
This interactive guide will help union reps plan your first steps to climate-proofing your workplace.
Climate change proof your workplace: Interactive guide
Pocket guide to organising and campaigning
A short guide to help you run organising and recruitment campaigns in your workplace. Get top tips on organising essentials, how to build an organising team, campaigning at work and talking to your work colleagues. 
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Redundancy - short guides for reps
These interactive guides will help you support members at every stage of the redundancy process, including helping them access the knowledge, training and skills they need to move forward afterwards.
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Supporting non-binary workers
Supporting non-binary workers is an important issue for reps — not only for individuals but because it has implications for workplace equality generally, learn more with this interactive guide.
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Talking about antisemitism
Guide for union reps on how to tackle antisemitism in workplaces.
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Return to safe workplaces - resource for reps
If your employer is asking colleagues to return to work outside home, they must make sure it’s done safely. A Covid-19 risk assessment is essential. But how do you know your employer's doing the right things?
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Risk assessments for homeworkers
Many of us are working from home to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But this exposes workers to other health and safety hazards, and some employers are ignoring their responsibility to carry out any risk assessment. Workplace reps can help change this.
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Organising through the coronavirus crisis
Here are our top organising tips. Whether it's saving workers' jobs or protecting their health and safety, it’s essential we organise. Social distancing measures just mean we need to do it a little differently.
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Domestic abuse and coronavirus - how you can help
This guide will help you develop the awareness and skills to give the best support and advice you can to someone who may be in danger.
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Menopause support in the workplace
This interactive learning is for union members and reps who want to learn how to support those experiencing difficulties due to menopause in the workplace.
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Tackling the far right
Far-right extremism is on the rise in Britain. Hate speech spreads unchecked online, and acts of far-right terrorism have rocketed. But unions have stronger weapons than the far-right — solidarity, trust, and of course, our union reps and activists. Together we can keep our workplaces hate-free.
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The real Living Wage
1 in 8 working adults live in poverty, and the vast majority of them will never escape low-paid work. The real Living Wage can transform their lives, but it needs reps like you to make it happen, learn more with this interactive guide.
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Talking about the union
A strong union relies on reps to attract new members and get them involved. It's easy when you know how, find out more in this interactive guide.
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Cancer in the Workplace
Produced in partnership with Macmillian Cancer Support, this guide raised awareness of the impact of cancer in the workplace and how union reps can support member affected by cancer in the workplace.
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Write with purpose
Good writing skills are an essential part of communication. This guide will help you improve your writing skills and tackle everyday writing tasks such as writing letters and reports and offers practical advice, learn more in our interactive guide.
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Handling difficult conversations
Talking to people who've been influenced by the far right is a challenge. Often they're perfectly good people — except for those dodgy opinions. So how do you challenge someone's views without pushing them further towards the far right? Try a practice conversation to find out.
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Health and safety and organising - interactive guide
An interactive resource available for anyone who wants to consider how to make their workplace safer through building a strong union.
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Changing lives through learning
For over two decades union learning representatives (ULRs) have enabled hundreds of thousands of union learners to gain and develop the skills they need to progress at work and prepare for the challenges of the years ahead, find out more in this interactive guide.
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Reading with purpose
In this guide, we'll introduce a range of reading skills. With practice, these should make you a better and more confident reader, both at work and in your personal life.
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Social model of disability
This guide is for union members and reps who want to help support the social model of disability, making adjustments and helping to overcome barriers. 
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The Trade Union Act - interactive guide
This online guide for union reps gives you all the essential needed about the Trade Union Act.
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Ethical trade awareness
This interactive guide on ethical trade is for trade union reps and members who want to improve conditions for workers involved in their supply chain who are outside their regular place of work.
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Apprenticeships – know your rights
Are you interested in earning as you learn, or do you know someone who is? An apprenticeship could be the answer. Find out what they are and how to get the most out of one with this short interactive guide. 
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Sexual harassment awareness
Dealing with cases of sexual harassment in the workplace is a key task for many union reps. Use this interactive guide to find out how you can help challenge attitudes to sexual harassment and get guidance on how to deal with it.
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Universal Credit
Universal Credit is the new way that benefits are now paid, there are significant changes to the way benefits are calculated and administered. Find out how you, as a union rep, can help your members with this major change to social security payments, learn more in this interactive guide.
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Pregnancy and maternity discrimination
This essential guide for union reps will help you support colleagues facing discrimination because they are pregnant or have taken maternity leave.
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Facility time awareness
It's time off for reps to carry out their trade union role, and it's a legal right in workplaces where the union is recognised – in public and private sectors. Reps have the right to paid time off for their union duties and relevant training, and the right to unpaid time off for other union activities. Learn more in our interactive guide on facility time.
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Language support for workers
Language support for workers will help reps recognise that English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learning is an opportunity to gain new members by demonstrating how the support of a union can have a positive impact. Helping workers with their English benefits employers and unions. In fact, it’s a great area for all reps to get involved with, not just union learning representatives (ULRs), because it offers opportunities to strengthen the union, learn more with this interactive guide.
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The Union Learning Advantage
Union learning brings numerous benefits to union members, employers, unions and to wider society. The Union Learning Advantage interactive guide details these advantages and contains real learning case studies to demonstrate the value of union learning, find out more in this interactive guide.
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