Brian Stewart, Award-winning Trade Unionist

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates Brian Stewart from Balloch for being awarded the fifth Scottish Trades Union Congress Helen Dowie Award for Lifelong Learning; notes that Brian is the lead learning rep for Unite the Union at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT); further notes that Brian and six other learning reps received the award for changing the lives of nearly 100 colleagues at SPT by successfully incorporating learning into core union business in the past year; further notes that, in the past year, there have been 2,138 hours of learning at SPT, 1,528 in company time and 610 in the learners’ own time, and applauds the role that Brian and his fellow learning reps have played in developing the full potential of individual workers at SPT.


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