Estimating the demand for union-led learning in Scotland

In countless project evaluations and reports the success of union learning has been well documented. However, only union learning representatives seem able to enthusiastically tell you about the potential of union learning. For the first time in the UK that potential has been quantified and is set out in this research paper. [This report] is the product of a telephone survey of workers in unionised workplaces and postal surveys of union learning representatives and union officers. Its conclusion, unsurprisingly, is that there is a latent demand for union learning, that union activity in the workplace creates its own demand for learning and that a projected 400,000 workers in unionised workplaces in Scotland intend to undertake learning at some point in the future. It provides irrefutable evidence that the most important influence on an individual's intention to undertake learning is that of being positively encouraged by union provision. It also identifies the future types of learners and learning demanded by workers in union workplaces.

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