The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) has released their course offerings for the upcoming 2024 Winter School, and it looks like another fantastic selection of introductory and advanced training opportunities in Labour Education.
What is Labour Education, you ask?
Labour education is the foundation and the future of Canada’s unions. It helps to strengthen unions by allowing members connect, learn, and grow together. To paraphrase an interprofessional axiom, it is learning with, from and about labour for labour! (Unionists, I’m talking about unionists.)
Nothing builds strong unions like educated, empowered, and motivated union members. And nothing builds a powerful labour movement like bringing together union members from a diversity of workplaces, backgrounds, and activism to share information and ideas, discuss common concerns, and build friendships. The CLC’s Labour Education program supports this important work by providing the resources – developing and delivering courses and workshops, training facilitators, coordinating schools – and fostering collaboration among its affiliated unions.
Guess what? That’s us. CCFA through the Federation of Post Secondary Educators are an affiliated union. Interested? Well, check out the Winter School Brochure for 2024 if you’d like to learn more.
This year, there are five weeks of Winter School being held at Harrison Hot Springs.
- Week 1 – Sunday, January 14, 2024 to Friday, January 19, 2024
- Week 2 – Sunday, January 21, 2024 to Friday, January 26, 2024
- Week 3 – Sunday, January 28, 2024 to Friday, February 2, 2024
- Week 4 – Sunday, February 4, 2024 to Friday, February 9, 2024
- Week 5 – Sunday, February 11, 2024 to Friday, February 16, 2024
Basic and Advanced Course Topics Offered in:
- Reconciliation
- Building Conflict Capacity in Union Work
- Collective Bargaining
- Domestic Violence and Gender-Based
Violence and Harassment at Work: Training
for Union Representatives - Facing Management Effectively
- Health and Safety
- Labour Community Advocate
- Mental Health First Aid
- Levelling Up Your Campaign Skills
- Parliamentary Procedure and Public Speaking
- Steward Training
- Unions in the Community
- Women in Leadership
- Building Psychologically Healthy Workplaces
- Basics of Organizing and Campaigns
- Advanced Shop Steward
- Federal Labour Law
- Social Stewards
- Labour Arbitration
- Intro to Digital Organizing
- Member Engagement – Member Action
- Organizing for Safer Workplaces
- Provincial Labour Law
- Candidate Development for Women
- Labour Council Officer Development
- Return to Work
- Workers Compensation
- Young Workers in Action
The deadline for registration is December 14, 2023. If you are interested in learning more or would like to be considered for a full or partially sponsored registration, contact ac.ytlucafnusomac@afcc for more information.
Lynelle Yutani (she/they)
ac.ytlucafnusomac@tnediserp
President, Camosun College Faculty Association
Lynelle is a queer, leftist rabble-rouser galvanized to guard the rights of union members and is on a crusade to convince you that you get out of your Union what you put into it. Lynelle serves on Presidents Council of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE) and was elected to FPSE Executive as a Member-at-Large. She is on a number of FPSE affiliate committees, including the 2SLGBTQIA+ and Racialized Workers Caucuses for the BC Fed, and is active in the Victoria Labour Congress. Lynelle also serves as V.P. of her Strata Council & oversees a rooftop community garden which partners with Harvest & Share Food Aid Society to grow fresh produce for local foodbanks and community food security programs.
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