lately we have ....

What an interesting week! Ivor and I did the RUL conference where we took the RMT workshop on bringing learning into the Union - which was very enlightening as it brought a number of issues to light from RULR's who had travelled to conference from all over the country. Lots of nice freebies as well- flash drives T shirts - mugs - calculators - document folders -all branded with RUL colours! (We took monkey as well, but that's another story!)
I checked out the refurbishment of Dover's new RMT regional office on Tuesday which is looking very pukka and will be a delight to deliver training from, and should be open by June. Wednesday saw us out and about talking to new starters and old learners! around the patch, and Thursday and Friday we had more RULR's volunteering to man the centre, which is not only much appreciated but useful as they are better with I.T. than we are!
In the long term, we are working with Southeastern to encourage frontline colleagues into acheiving NVQ's and some of us will be training to be assessors! So busy busy and onwards and upwards! See you soon!

Unionlearn Launch Video

Let's not forget our past..

For those of us who remember Connex, here's a look at the advertising we may have seen if they were still our train operator..

RUL conference

Rail Union Learning conference takes place on Monday 16th April. Hope to see all RULers there! Should be a fantastic workshop for RMT (I'm taking it!) In the meantime RSLC will have TSSA cover on Friday 13th - spooky! with the lovely John Morris in the chair. I have it on good authority that goody bags for conference are looking very nice!

poets day

As it is a holiday weekend it seems that learning is not high on anyone's agenda and who can blame them! The sun is shining so if you can get away do so! Forget about work and have some fun! See ya next week when it's back to normal.
All the best from RSLC.

Interesting stuff in the press today. The Daily Mirror says that should Labour win in Scotland they (Scottish labour not the Mirror!)will bring the Railways back (Into public ownership) - but only in Scotland - can we have that written in stone?
In Railnews there is an article that condemns the amount of time customers have to spend queueing to buy tickets at railway stations. The facts and figures come from the "Passenger focus group" The same bunch that saw no reason to oppose cuts in hours to the very ticket offices they are concerned about. Funny old game on the railways

more bloggers

As from today there will be many and various team members adding their thoughts and madness to this blog - and welcome they are too! Anything that is loosely connected to us or the Railway is fair game and we hope to see comments from readers as well so log on and blog on!
Mikke

I think it may be of use to encourage informal learning sessions around use of I.T. media. Ie: web hosting - blogging etc. Or any other ideas around sharing knowledge. We can host at RSLC but we need ideas and bums on seats! Anythoughts?