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LET - Secretary-Treasurer Orientation (OLS)

Dec 2, 2025 | ONLINE, Newfoundland and Labrador | English
This online workshop will help newly-elected treasurers learn about the basics of the local union’s finances. You will learn about your duties regarding the finances of the union, keeping the books, and how to be transparent and accountable to members. 

Introduction to Stewarding

Dec 3, 2025 | Peace River, Alberta | English
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.

LET - Leading as a Team

Dec 4, 2025 | Peace River, Alberta | English
In this workshop, executive teams explore power and responsibility that comes with it, how we work in teams and how to balance our leadership styles to engage the membership and work effectively across diversity.

Introduction to Stewarding

Dec 5, 2025 | CUPE Grande Prairie Area Office, Grande Prairie, Alberta | English
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.

LET - Trustee Orientation (OLS)

Dec 5, 2025 | CUPE Manitoba Regional Office - Training Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba | English
This online workshop will help new trustees understand their role and responsibilities. You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of union finances, financial controls, and financial terms as well as the basics of the trustees' audit.

LET - Parliamentary Procedure

December 6 - 7, 2025 | CUPE Grande Prairie Area Office, Grande Prairie, Alberta | English
This workshop is about following rules of order when chairing union meetings. Learn about the role of the chair and the different elements (motions, amendments, points of order, etc.). Get a chance to put the learning into practice.

NOTE: Please bring a copy of your local bylaws to the workshop.

LET - Trustee Orientation (OLS)

Dec 8, 2025 | CUPE Manitoba Regional Office - Training Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba | English
This online workshop will help new trustees understand their role and responsibilities. You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of union finances, financial controls, and financial terms as well as the basics of the trustees' audit.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

December 8 - 9, 2025 | ONLINE, Manitoba | English
This workshop offers the following sessions:

- Health and Safety - An Introduction Part 1 - December 8 (5:00 - 8:00 pm)
- Health and Safety - An Introduction Part 2 - December 9 (5:00 - 8:00 pm)

Recommended to register for all sessions.

SLS - Conflict skills for stewards

Dec 8, 2025 | CUPE Grande Prairie Area Office, Grande Prairie, Alberta | English
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

Dec 8, 2025 | CUPE Grande Prairie Area Office, Grande Prairie, Alberta | English
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.

WSIB Level 4 - Return to Work

December 8 - 12, 2025 | Windsor, Ontario | English
**PRE-REQUISITE IS LEVEL 1 & 2**
The fourth of six certification courses offered within Prevention Link’s core curriculum, is designed for participants who will or currently assist injured workers, individually or collectively, through a therapeutic return to work (RTW) and provides workplace parties with the tools necessary to develop strategies that ensure successful outcomes. Through the exploration of leading research, law, and evidence-based best practices, participants learn: The principles of good return to work practices and the Duty to Accommodate; Legal lessons from precedent-setting cases and their practical use; Barriers to successful return to work and their elimination using the social model of disability and therapeutic return to work principles; An in-depth comparison between older methods of disability management and the newer progressive disability prevention model; The paradigm shift from management to prevention and the roles of the parties involved (employer, an injured worker, representative, H&S representatives) including their rights and responsibilities in the process.

LET - Leadership Essentials

December 9 - 10, 2025 | Centre de Villégiature Deux Rivières, Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick | French
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 CUPE (OLS)

Dec 16, 2025 | ONLINE, New Brunswick | French
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.

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