February 27 - March 2, 2025
Accommodation
Locals are responsible for booking their delegates’ accommodations. Please make reservations directly with the hotel prior to January 30, 2024 by calling (204) 642-8565. Quote CUPE Winter School 2025 when reserving your room.
Cost
Double Rooms: $144.00
Suites: $162.00
Deluxe Suites: $194.00
1-bedroom Vacation Suites: $225.00
English
Classroom
CUPE/SCFP
Courses offered for this Winter School are:
- Campaigns and Communications
- Steward Learning Series
- Human Rights Grievances, Bargaining and Campaigns
- Building for Gains in the Social Services Sector
Brochure can be found on the CUPE Manitoba website.
Custom Campaigns and Communications Content
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
With tips and hands-on skills-building activities.
Effective Lobbying and Growing our Mobilizing Power
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Stewards can play a key role when the union needs to mobilize our members – whether it’s to support the bargaining committee, challenge lack of respect by management, or advocate for better funding for public services. Learn basic mobilization theory and government relations theory, and explore how stewards can tackle workplace problems in ways that engage more members and build the union’s power.
LET - Planning for Member Engagement (OLS)
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Learn principles and processes to plan member engagement in your local.
Literacy Awareness and Artificial Intelligence
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Literacy affects all of us at work. Learning new computer programs, understanding collective agreements, completing forms or writing reports can all pose barriers for our members. Learn about how stewards can increase literacy awareness and help make the union inclusive and accessible to members.
Custom Content on Handling Human Rights Grievances
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Custom Content on Handling Human Rights Grievances
SLS - Mediating member-to-member conflict
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Practice coaching members who are in conflict with other members, and work with a four-step approach to basic mediation.
SLS - Solidarity with Indigenous workers
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
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 - Understanding mental health
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Explore the steward’s role in supporting and representing members dealing with mental health issues. Learn how to challenge stigma, and how to approach a conversation with a member about a possible mental health issue.
SLS - What stewards need to know about arbitration
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Although most grievances get settled, some go to arbitration. Learn about the arbitration process, terms, mediated settlements, and the role of the steward before and during arbitration. NOTE: Please bring your collective agreement to the workshop.
Grievances and Bargaining for Truth and Reconciliation
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Exploring what decolonization grievances and bargaining could include.
Local Topics in Human Rights
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Bring your local questions.
SLS - Representing gender and sexually diverse members
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
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
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
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.
Supporting Members with Human Rights Grievances
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
From initial complaint to arbitration, special supports, handling evidence, and tips for decision points.
Bargaining Solidarity
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
What creates respect at work? What is harassment, bullying and violence? What can we do to stop it?
Custom Campaigns and Bargaining Strategy
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Custom Campaigns and Bargaining Strategy
Effective Lobbying and Growing our Mobilizing Power
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
Stewards can play a key role when the union needs to mobilize our members – whether it’s to support the bargaining committee, challenge lack of respect by management, or advocate for better funding for public services. Learn basic mobilization theory and government relations theory, and explore how stewards can tackle workplace problems in ways that engage more members and build the union’s power.
LET - Essentials for Inclusive Unions
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
As activists in our unions, we often ask why members are not more involved. This workshop asks a different question: Who is involved and who isn't and what might be some reasons why? How might our unconscious biases contribute to this? How can we represent members in a way that invites those on the margins to get involved and to see the union as place where they want to make a difference?
Respect at work: Stop Bullying, Harassment and Violence
February 27 (7:00pm) - March 2, 2025 (12:00pm) (20 spaces available)
What creates respect at work? What is harassment, bullying and violence? What can we do to stop it?
Feb 7, 2025
Lakeview Gimli Resort & Conference
Box 1860, 10 Centre Street
Gimli, Manitoba
(map)
$450
Your registration is not final until payment is received. If payment is not received by February 7, 2025, your seat will be released.
Please make cheques payable to: CUPE/SCFP
Mail payment to:
Annalyn Jimeno
703 - 275 BROADWAY
WINNIPEG, Manitoba R3C 4M6
There is significant demand for our workshops. If you need to cancel your registration, please email Annalyn Jimeno, mbeducation@cupe.ca as soon as possible.
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.
Annalyn Jimeno
mbeducation@cupe.ca