CWU Education Policy

Rule 2.1.7 of the CWU rulebook states that the CWU shall :

• Promote, organise and facilitate access to adult education to enable members to advance their skills for life.
  The CWU would summarise the aims of its education programme as follows:
  
  
• To encourage all CWU members to develop their own educational potential;
  
  
•  To provide members with the skills required to negotiate effectively with management;
  
  
• To fight discrimination by encouraging greater participation in union activities, especially by women and ethnic minorities;
  
  
• To assist the CWU in carrying out its responsibilities to represent its members' interests;
  
  
• To train CWU activists as tutors in order to pass on their experience to the next generation of activists;
  
  
• To promote workers' solidarity in the world and to develop and strengthen free and democratic unions;
  

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