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CUPE Education Workshop Calendar (Ontario)

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Steward Learning Series

April 17 - 18, 2024 | CUPE Local 4000, Ottawa, Ontario | English
Introduction to Stewarding; Mediating Member to Member Conflict and Representing Members in Front of Management

SLS - Creating accommodation-friendly workplaces

Apr 18, 2024 | Local 1022, Belleville, Ontario | English
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 - Grievance handling

Apr 19, 2024 | CUPE Kingston Area Office, Kingston, Ontario | English
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.

Cancelled: SLS - HS - Preventing Mental Injuries at Work

Apr 20, 2024 | CUPE Local 109 Hall, KIngston, Ontario | 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.

Steward Learning Series

April 24 - 25, 2024 | CUPE Local 4705, Copper Cliff, Ontario | English | $20 (Affiliate) | $20 (Non-affiliate)
Introduction to Stewarding, Notetaking and Representing Members in Front of Management

Mental Heath First Aid Standard (Virtual)

May 2 - 3, 2024 | Zoom Call, Online, Ontario | English | $75
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is the support provided to a person who may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis. Course participants will learn how to:
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Recognize signs that a person may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis
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Have conversations that encourage a person to:
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Talk about declines in their mental well-being
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Discuss professional and other supports that could help with recovery to improved mental well-being
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Reach out to these support
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Assist in a mental health or substance use crisis
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Use MHFA actions to maintain one’s own mental well-being

Niagara District CUPE Council Weekend School

May 4 - 5, 2024 | Brock University - International Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario | English | $75 (Affiliate) | $100 (Non-affiliate)
Niagara District CUPE Council Weekend School

SLS - Psychologically safe workplaces

May 4, 2024 | CUPE Local 109 Hall, KIngston, Ontario | English
What is a psychologically healthy and safe workplace? Learn to identify the psychosocial hazards in a workplace, and the tools we have to address them.

Conflict Resolution

May 9 - 10, 2024 | CUPE Sault Ste Marie Area Office, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario | English | $20 (Affiliate) | $25 (Non-affiliate)
Conflict is a natural part of our lives. Learning to handle it well improves relationships with other members, co-workers and the employer.
In this workshop, you will:
• deepen your understanding of conflict;
• strengthen your communication skills;
• practice responding to conflict.

SLS - Solidarity with Indigenous workers

May 15, 2024 | CUPE Local 109 Hall, KIngston, Ontario | English
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 - Ally skills for stewards

May 16, 2024 | Local 1022, Belleville, Ontario | English
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 - Duty of fair representation

May 18, 2024 | CUPE Local 109 Hall, KIngston, Ontario | English
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 - Creating harassment-free workplaces

Jun 15, 2024 | CUPE Local 109 Hall, KIngston, Ontario | English
Learn how to recognize harassment, educate members about harassment, and represent members who are involved in harassment complaints.

LET - Good Meetings

Jun 20, 2024 | Local 1022, Belleville, Ontario | English
"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.

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