Our new Reps Toolkit contains details on how to get started and has been designed to help you organise a Pensions Awareness Campaign so that you can:

— Fully understand how the Pension Section can support you and your colleagues.

— Find out more about your employer’s pension scheme.

— Carry out surveys in your workplace to help find out about people’s attitudes to pensions.

— Direct members to the Usdaw Pension Section on more complex issues.

— Help your colleagues to find out how much their State Pension will be.

— Encourage members to sign up to Usdaw’s online Pension Home Study course.

— Stop colleagues from being scammed.

— Direct members to Usdaw’s chosen advisers should anyone need independent financial advice.

— Refresh your Union noticeboard on a regular basis.

We believe that carrying out a Pensions Awareness Campaign is a positive initiative, it shows our members we are a pro-active union, that we are prepared to offer support not just in the bad times, but in the good as well and above all it can create a great opportunity for you to help recruit new members.

To order a Toolkit today, contact the Pension Section on pensions@usdaw.org.uk.