Organising Health Check
Print off the checklist that follows to allows
you to assess the current situation in your workplace. Give
yourself one point for every ‘YES’ answer. The ‘Are You Well
Organised’ Matrix on the linked page will then help you see what
areas you need to concentrate on in your organisation.
Workplace Reps and
Activists
| Do you know
how many learning reps you have in your company? |
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| Are there enough learning reps to cover all the members? |
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| Do your learning reps sit on your union committee or joint reps
group? |
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Do you have a learning committee?
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Is your learning committee representative of
the membership? (inc gender, age, etc)
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Are your learning reps in touch with each
other regularly?
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| Have all your learning reps been trained by the union/TUC? |
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| Do you have a network of other interested members to help with
activities around lifelong learning? |
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| Do Reps invite members to take on special jobs/activities? |
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| Do you have awareness-raising events for other activists and
members? |
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Learning Issues in
the Workplace
| Do you regularly talk to members & non-members about
learning issues? |
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| Do your learning reps take up learning issues for members? |
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| Do members know what learning issues are being dealt with? |
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| Do non-members know what learning issues are being dealt
with? |
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| Have your learning reps carried out a learning needs
analysis? |
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| Are you engaged in collective organising around learning? |
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| Are you engaged in one-to-one organising around learning? |
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Are you campaigning on any learning issues at
the moment?
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Members
| Do you know how many members you have at your workplace? |
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| Is the membership density over 50%? |
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| Do you know where the members work, what they do, their age,
gender and who their learning rep or other workplace reps are? |
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| Do you know what your member’s attitude to learning is? |
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| Is there a list or database of this information? |
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| Does this list/database record any involvement/activity they
have had in Unite Amicus-section? |
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| Do all your members know who their learning rep is? |
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| Do all your members know how to contact their learning rep (or
any other learning rep?) |
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| Do you know what other departments or areas of the company have
Unite Amicus-section members? |
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Member
Involvement
| Do you know what learning issues members feel strongly
about? |
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| Is there a network for communicating between members? |
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| Do you know what percentage or how many of your members have
(one ‘yes’ for each heading below):
Attended a union meeting in the past year?
Recruited a new member?
Been involved in workplace issues?
Been involved in campaigns?
Undertaken any form of union activity?
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| Do Unite reps arrange activities that members can get involved
in? |
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| Does the Unite reps run any lifelong learning events? |
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| Do learning reps regularly talk to members informally about
learning? |
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| Do Unite reps hold regular workplace meetings with
members? |
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| Does Unite have a regular newsletter for members? |
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| Is there a section in the meeting or newsletter for
learning issues? |
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| Are there notices or posters telling people who the Unite
Amicus-section learning reps are and how they can be
contacted? |
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Recruitment
| Do you know how many non-members there are in your
organisation? |
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| Do you know where the non-members work, what they do, their
age, gender and so on? |
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| Is there a list or database of this information about
non-members? |
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| Does the list/database record whether they have been approached
to join Unite Amicus-section and what their response was? |
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| Does management or HR regularly give you a list of new
starters? |
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| Is it someone’s job to ask non-members to join Unite
Amicus-section? |
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| Is it someone’s job to ask new starters to join Unite
Amicus-section (eg on induction courses)? |
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| Do you have special recruitment material you can use at your
workplace? |
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| Do you have any recruitment material dedicated to
learning? |
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Relations with
Management
| Do you have a recognition agreement? |
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| Do you have a learning agreement? |
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| Does the recognition/learning agreement include learning reps
for areas/departments/sites? |
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| Do you have a lifelong learning partnership committee? |
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| Does the grievance procedure allow learning reps to progress
learning issues? |
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| Does management formally consult learning reps on learning
issues? |
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| Does the consultation procedure allow you to raise issues that
you are concerned about? |
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| Do line managers respond positively when approached by learning
reps? |
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| Do you have a formal negotiating process that includes learning
issues? |
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| Are you able to meet regularly with the Training dept of the
company? |
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