November 18 - 21, 2025
All participants MUST register themselves using their own information and email addresses to receive the appropriate credit for completing the courses.
English
Classroom
CUPE/SCFP
NADC 2025 Fall school will be held from November 18 - 21, 2025 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Prince George, BC.
This school is open to both members of affiliated locals and non-affiliated locals at a cost.
Course offerings will be:
1) Shop Steward Learning Series - Stream 1 (Day 1 includes Introduction to Stewarding)
2) Shop Steward Learning Series - Stream 2
3) Navigating Conflict
4) Occupational Health & Safety
This course deals with conflict between peers and often challenging topics. Participants should expect to be in respectful discussions and hard conversation. Using skills from the course, participants will role play scenarios and work together to diffuse, maintain and build respectful workplaces.
Navigating Conflict
November 18 (9:00am) - 21, 2025 (12:00pm)
Conflict is a part of our lives – at work, in the union, and at home. In this workshop we’ll build our conflict skills by looking at: • How our beliefs about conflict and our conflict style affect what happens in a conflict. • Sources of conflict in the union and at work. • Conflict dynamics, cultural differences and power • Choosing the best response in a conflict. • Conflict communication skills and difficult conversations
Health and Safety - An Introduction
Nov 18, 2025 (9:00am-4:00pm (Pacific))
This course serves as an introduction into the world of health and safety and explores different basic concepts such as: • Identification of hazards; • Hierarchy of controls; • The basic role of health and safety committees; • Basics on the right to refuse. NOTE: See more Health and Safety courses in the Health and Safety Learning Series.
HS - Basics of Incident Investigations
Nov 19, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (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.
SLS - HS - Preventing Mental Injuries at Work
Nov 19, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (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 - Law and Orders
Nov 20, 2025 (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
Nov 20, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (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.
HS - Making Committees Work
Nov 21, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (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.
Introduction to Stewarding
Nov 18, 2025 (9:00am-4:00pm (Pacific))
What does a CUPE steward do? If you are a new steward and want to learn how to help CUPE members solve workplace problems, this introductory workshop is for you! In this workshop, you will learn: • investigating workplace problems; • filing a grievance; • meeting with management; • dealing with workplace complaints. NOTE: Please bring a copy of your collective agreement to the workshop.
SLS - Representing members in front of management
Nov 19, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
This module equips stewards to be proactive when meeting with management. Learn tips for effective meetings, and build confidence by practicing meeting situations.
SLS - Grievance handling
Nov 19, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (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 - Handling discipline and discharge
Nov 20, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Learn about key legal concepts and terms, and the role of stewards during an employer’s investigation, when discipline is given, and during grievance meetings. NOTE: Please bring your collective agreement and Steward Handbook to the workshop.
SLS - Notetaking
Nov 20, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (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 - Duty of fair representation
Nov 21, 2025 (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.
SLS - Understanding mental health
Nov 18, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
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 - Creating accommodation-friendly workplaces
Nov 18, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (Pacific))
Learn the legal framework for the duty to accommodate, what a good accommodation process and plan look like, and what to do if the employer is not willing to provide reasonable accommodation. NOTE: Please bring your Steward Handbook to the workshop.
SLS - Conflict skills for stewards
Nov 19, 2025 (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 - HS - Preventing Mental Injuries at Work
Nov 19, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (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.
SLS - Ally skills for stewards
Nov 20, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Effective stewards are champions for human rights and equality. Explore what it means to be an ally, and ways that stewards can step up as allies in the workplace and the union.
SLS - Challenging racism in the workplace
Nov 20, 2025 (1:00pm-4:00pm (Pacific))
This workshop covers what racism looks like in the workplace, and your role as a steward in challenging it.
SLS - What stewards need to know about bargaining
Nov 21, 2025 (9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific))
Learn about the different steps in the bargaining process, the responsibilities of different activists throughout bargaining, and the role during bargaining.
Oct 24, 2025
Ramada Plaza Hotel
444 George Street
Prince George, British Columbia
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Affiliate: $100
Non-affiliate: $260
Payment information will be in the registration package provided by the NADC
Affiliate cost - $100 per member
Non-Affiliate cost - $260 per member
There is significant demand for our workshops. If you need to cancel your registration, please email bceducation@cupe.ca, 6222 Willingdon Avenue, BURNABY, British Columbia V5H 0G3 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.
Jennifer Kirchner
jkirchner@cupe.ca