Trade Unions

Law students provide support through our FUTR program:

1. Fact-finding – Law students work with our union connections to act as the initial point of contact for work-related concerns by assisting caseworkers or trade union representatives to collect and collate raised facts-in-issue.  This assistance enables the union representatives or legal department to allocate more time to their union members with more technical issues, thus increasing accessibility to and membership of the union. 

2. Using legal databases – Our volunteers are have been introduced to legal databases such LEAP and CLIO to log client communication, enabling transparency and accuracy of information, they therefore have the foundational skills to work with any legal database.

3. Transfer facts to precedents – Our volunteers are involved in drafting representations, by using the data from fact-finding in the required precedent on the member’s behalf. 

4. Representations – Volunteers who demonstrate a certain level of skills and commitment, are willing to be trained to represent union members at employment tribunals.