Skills – Community Trade Union

Celebrating the launch of Skills England

Community — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:02:21 +0000

At Community, we are delighted with the launch of Skills England, an essential initiative aimed at enhancing the skills and qualifications of workers across England. Dougie Fairbairn, NEC member for the Midlands said: Brexit has had a profound impact on the UK’s workforce and skills landscape. The departure from the European Union has led to a range of economic uncertainty and reductions…

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Government must think again on post-16 education

Community — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:53:20 +0000

Community has welcomed a report from the Commons Education Committee that calls on the government to “pause” its “post-16 education shake-up or risk making the skills shortages worse”. The Education Committee’s report urges the government to halt plans to stop funding courses such as BTECS before new T levels are ready to replace them. Helen Osgood, Community’s National Officer for Education &

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A right to lifelong learning to support all workers to adapt

Kate Dearden — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:00:16 +0000

Community’s Head of Research, Policy and External Relations, Kate Dearden spoke at the Labour Party Conference on the importance of supporting workers’ skills development with the introduction of new technologies in the workplace. You can read her words below: Conference, this motion is about the simple idea that new technologies in the workplace should make work better and safer for everyone.

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Meeting the skills challenges for the future

Community — Tue, 17 May 2022 07:27:48 +0000

A major intervention on the future of adult learning has been detailed in a new policy report released today. The report, Equipped For The Future, features an introduction from former Secretary of State for Education and Employment David Blunkett as well as contributions from the Deputy General Secretary of The TUC Paul Nowak, Chief Executive of Business in the Community Amanda Mackenzie OBE and…

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Community for your career

Community — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:00:16 +0000

At Community, we believe in supporting you throughout your career. Whether you’re just starting or have a few decades under your belt, we see it as our job to be there for you every step of the way. For young workers, we want to be there to give you that kick start as you enter the working world. In 2022, this has never been more vital. Trade union membership among young workers (aged 20–29)…

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Working in partnership on building our skills

Caroline Taylor — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:00:18 +0000

We know that careers today are very different to what they were decades ago. Jobs and industries are evolving quickly, and people tend not to be in one job for life but have several in their lifetime. Whilst that may not be with different employers, it is possible to have multiple careers within the same company. At Community, we know that prior to the pandemic, employers were facing skills…

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Meeting the green skills need

Community — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 08:18:51 +0000

In a report published today – Preparing for a Just Transition: Meeting green skill needs for a sustainable steel industry – the extent of the skills gap needed to close for a green transition is revealed. The report, published as the second week of COP26 begin, is a collaboration between Cardiff University and the trade union Community. As a major contributor of carbon emissions…

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#TUC21: Tackling the skills gap

Community — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:03:45 +0000

The world of work is changing, and workers need to be both allowed and supported to change with it. 80% of the people who will be in the workforce in 2030 are already in work today. It is today’s workers who will be most affected by the technology change that’s coming, and every worker should have the freedom and the opportunity to get new skills. Unfortunately, evidence shows that the U.K.

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Let’s invest in the skills of our young workers

Kate Dearden — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:07:25 +0000

Young workers today are growing up in a unique environment. Economic shifts – brought on both by rapidly developing technology, globalisation and the looming threat of climate change – mean that the world of work they’ll enter will be basically unrecognisable from the one they were born into. In many ways, that is a fantastic thing. New inventions have enriched our lives in countless ways.

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The future for workers and tech

Anna Mowbray — Fri, 14 May 2021 11:05:00 +0000

Anna Mowbray presented the findings of Community’s report, ‘Sharing the Future: Workers and Technology in the 2020s’, at the Challenging Tech symposium, hosted by Cardiff University’s Data justice Lab. Here’s what she said: In 2018, Community started our Commission on Workers and Technology. We did this as we were hearing reports that more and more jobs were vulnerable to automation…

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