Clause 43 - Union learning representatives
Employment Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Kevin Hughes (Doncaster North, Labour)
Unfortunately, that was not the impression that I was given this morning. Forward-thinking, innovative management that operates in this century will want to improve its business, and it will welcome the provisions as an opportunity to do so. It will recognise that they will lead to a highly skilled and educated work force across industry as a whole.
Trade union representatives have always believed in education and training. I dare say that if it were not for such thinking in the trade union movement years ago, I
would not be in Committee. I was encouraged by trade union representatives to gain education and training in skills further afield than those required in my industry.