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Glasgow Trade Union Education Centre secures two-year partnership after a landmark campaign

City of Glasgow College. Photo: AlasdairW/ Creative Commons

HAVING spent more than 20 years championing the cause of workplace education, as a tutor at the Glasgow Trade Union Education Centre, I wasn’t completely blind to the task that faced my colleagues and I when the centre was poised for closure by management.

However, as the Scottish trade union movement assembles for this year’s STUC Congress, we will be arriving in Dundee to celebrate a victory for solidarity and effective campaigning, which sees the Glasgow Trade Union Education Centre saved from closure.

Thanks to a landmark multi-year partnership agreement with City of Glasgow College, our centre — an institution that has stood at the heart of Scotland’s labour movement for over 30 years — will continue to offer critical accredited training in employment law, health and safety, collective bargaining and negotiation skills for at least the next two years.

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