October 27 - November 1, 2024
** IMPORTANT NOTE **
If you are registering on behalf of members please ensure to provide the email address of the member who is attending for communication reasons.
If you are registering for Steward Learning Series or Advanced Grievance Handling series please note you MUST have completed Introduction to Stewarding workshop. If you have not completed this your registration will automatically be cancelled.
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On behalf of CUPE Union Education and CUPE BC, thank you for registering to be a part of our Fall 2024 Weeklong School being held in Whistler, BC from October 27 - November 1, 2024.
Hotel check-in and School Registration will open / start at 3:00 pm on Sunday, October 27.
Workshops will run from:
Mon - Thu 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (Pacific) with breaks during the day.
Friday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Pacific) will be review of the week and closing ceremony.
HS - Identifying and Documenting Hazards
Oct 28, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
In this module, you will learn techniques for identifying hazards, such as body maps, surveys and inspections. You will also develop a methodology for dealing with the hazards you find. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
HS - Basics of Incident Investigations
Oct 28, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
Learn how to identify root causes of workplace incidents, injuries, and diseases, common routes of entry of toxic substances, and your role in the investigation process. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
HS - Recommendations and notetaking
Oct 29, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Learn how to takes notes at committee meetings and prepare recommendations. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
HS - Making Committees Work
Oct 29, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
This module explores the structure, role and function of health and safety committees, their strengths and limitations, and how they can best work within the legislative framework, and within our union. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
SLS - HS - Preventing Mental Injuries at Work
Oct 30, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
New forms of work, job insecurity, work intensification, high demands, violence and a resulting poor work-life balance are resulting in psychosocial and mental health problems in CUPE workplaces. This module focuses on the workplace as the cause or a contributor to mental health issues, and not the individual. Discuss strategies and actions that actually help make workplaces psychologically healthier and safer.
HS - Mobilizing around Health and Safety
Oct 30, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
In this workshop you will learn what mobilizing for health and safety looks like, how to engage members around health and safety in your workplace and how to create a mobilizing plan. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
HS - Law and Orders
Oct 31, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
This module covers the basic origins of health and safety law, how to find, read and interpret relevant section of law and highlights some of the more important aspects of the specific health and safety law that applies to you. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
HS - Violence Prevention
Oct 31, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
This module examines the risk factors that lead to violence in the workplace, and the employer’s obligations to prevent workers from being exposed to and injured by violence while at work. We examine relevant health and safety law, and start to develop strategies to make our workplaces safer. NOTE: Please bring your binder and Health and Safety Committee Resource Kit.
MUST HAVE COMPLETED INTRODUCTION TO STEWARDING
SLS - Notetaking
Oct 28, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Why do I have to take notes? What kind of notes should I take? Are my notes private? Learn answers to important questions like these, and practice notetaking.
SLS - Grievance handling
Oct 28, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
Share tips and successful practices with other stewards, and learn strategies for handling difficult grievances. NOTE: Please bring your collective agreement and Steward Handbook to the workshop.
SLS - Duty of fair representation
Oct 29, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Learn about where stewards get their authority in the workplace, the duty of fair representation, and other labour laws that cover the workplace. NOTE: Please bring your Steward Handbook to the workshop.
Anti-Harassment and Bystander Training
Oct 29, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
When we are disrespected in our union, or when harm, harassment, and discrimination happen we are unsafe. We would not accept it from our supervisors and managers at work, and it is not ok in our union space. When we witness others being harmed, oppressed or injured, we can intervene in safe and effective ways before, during, or after a harassing or violent situation. In this 3-hour workshop, learn and practice how to intervene.
SLS - Representing gender and sexually diverse members
Oct 30, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia play out in our workplaces, locals, and communities. Learn how to challenge these kinds of discrimination, and respectfully represent gender and sexually diverse members in your workplace.
SLS - Solidarity with Indigenous workers
Oct 30, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
Learn about Canada’s history of colonialism, engage in some myth-busting, and explore ways you can build solidarity with Indigenous workers and support reconciliation in the workplace.
SLS - Conflict skills for stewards
Oct 31, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Unresolved workplace conflict is stressful and weakens the union. Learn about the sources of workplace conflict and how to choose a response that fits the situation. Practice conflict communication skills that will help you resolve conflict at work and in the union.
SLS - Challenging racism in the workplace
Oct 31, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
This workshop covers what racism looks like in the workplace, and your role as a steward in challenging it.
Introduction to CUPE (OLS)
Oct 28, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
In this workshop you will: • explore union values; • learn about CUPE’s structure; • find out how unions solve problems ; • gain skills that will help you play a stronger role in your CUPE local.
SLS - Conflict skills for stewards
Oct 28, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
Unresolved workplace conflict is stressful and weakens the union. Learn about the sources of workplace conflict and how to choose a response that fits the situation. Practice conflict communication skills that will help you resolve conflict at work and in the union.
BARG - How Bargaining Works
Oct 29, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
This module can be added to other parts of the Bargaining Education Program. It covers the legal framework for collective bargaining and where we get our power as a union.
LET - Good Meetings
Oct 29, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
Have you ever sat through a meeting, either as a participant or a facilitator that you knew could be more focused, efficient, inclusive, or effective? We use Bourniot's rules of parliamentary procedure to make important decisions in a way that is fair. But sometimes a different kind of conversation is needed to be inclusive and build our movement. In this workshop, executive members learn a how to find and lead the right process for the work that needs to get done. Parliamentary procedure is an important part of our democratic process in CUPE. Some conversations are better had using other approaches. How do you decide when parli-pro is needed and when another approach could help? Build your facilitation skills for supporting effective and inclusive discussions, learn and practice some processes that you can use in your day to day work.
LET - Leadership Essentials
Oct 30, 2024 (9:00am-4:30pm (Pacific))
Who am I as a leader? Who are we as a local union? How do we fit into the broader movement? Learn how to use the power of your elected position to build power and strengthen solidarity in the union, in the labour movement and in our communities.
Introduction to Allyship (OLS)
Oct 31, 2024 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Participants will learn how to build a practice of allyship in their personal lives as well as in their locals, workplaces and communities. Learners will explore definitions, principles and applications of good allyship, and discuss related topics like white supremacy, privilege, comfort zones and strategies for collective action.
Bring our work in house: How to stop contracting out
Oct 31, 2024 (1:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific))
This workshop explores the benefits of bringing services in house - both for CUPE members and for those who rely on the services we provide. Learn how to identify possible services to bring in house and the steps to contracting in. Work with CUPE's new toolkit to stop contracting out called "Stop Contracting Out: A guide to bringing jobs and services back in house."
Collective Bargaining - Level 1 (CLC)
October 28 (9:00am) - November 1, 2024 (12:00pm)
Participants will leave with a solid understanding of the bargaining process and the factors that affect collective bargaining. This course also introduces some of the laws and rules that structure the bargaining process and provides opportunities for hands-on practice and skills development in preparing for and negotiating parts of a collective agreement. This course is aimed at new bargaining committee members and local union officers.
BC Mental Health First Aid
October 28 (9:00am) - 29, 2024 (4:30pm)
Mental Health First Aid is designed to give you skills to assist someone who is experiencing a Mental Health crisis. It’s a 9 hr workshop in which 2 hrs is a pre-requisite that needs to be completed prior to the course.
Mental Health in the Workplace: A Union Perspective
October 30 (9:00am) - 31, 2024 (4:30pm)
More than half the population will experience a mental health problem over their lifetime. At least 20% of us are dealing with mental illness on any given day. Mental health issues touch every one of us directly or indirectly. What does this mean for us as workers? What about in our role as union activists? What are our duties and responsibilities? How can we support members who may be dealing with mental illness? This workshop will help answer these questions and more. *Includes certification "Mental Health First Aid."
THIS IS A WORKSHOP ON GRIEVANCE HANDLING FROM START OF GRIEVANCE TO ARBITRATION. THIS IS FOR EXPERIENCED STEWARDS ONLY & MUST HAVE COMPLETED INTRODUCTION TO STEWARDING.
Advanced Grievance Handling: Building the best case from Grievance to Arbitration
October 28 (9:00am) - November 1, 2024 (12:00pm)
This workshop will teach participants about how to best prepare grievances to increase their local's chances of success at arbitration. This advanced workshop is geared to experienced stewards, chief shop stewards and Local Executive members.
Sep 19, 2024
The Westin Resort & Spa
4090 Whistler Way
Whistler, British Columbia
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$2000
Your registration is not final until payment is received. Payment is due to us 1 week after registration is submitted. If payment is not received by then; the spot will be automatically cancelled and given to the next person on the waitlist.
Please make cheques payable out to: Canadian Union of Public Employees.
DO NOT make cheques payable out to CUPE BC; these cannot be accepted and will be returned and this will delay the registration process & may result in loss of the spot.
Mail payment to: 6222 Willingdon Avenue, BURNABY, British Columbia V5H 0G3 - Attention: Education Dept / Fall 2024 Weeklong
Reminder of costs:
Full Participant Cost: $2000.00 - Single occupancy accommodation, workshops & lunch.
Local Participant Cost: $500.00 - Workshops and lunch only.
Partner/Spouse or 14+ Child: $500.00
Child 3-13 years: $250.00
Cheque is the only form of payment we are able to accept at this time.
There is a huge demand for our weeklong learning programs. Cancellation requests must be done prior to October 14, 2024; after October 14th the registration fee is 100% non-refundable. To request a cancellation, please email Katie Rife, krife@cupe.ca.
Thanks for your interest in CUPE’s Union Education Program and for your ongoing leadership in our union!
In response to the health concerns of our members and staff, CUPE has implemented a Scent-Free Policy at all of our workshops. Scented products such as hair spray, perfume and deodorant can trigger reactions such as respiratory distress and headaches. Facilitators and participants are asked to refrain from using scented products while attending our workshops and meetings. Thank you for your cooperation.
Katie Rife
krife@cupe.ca