Race Protocol Workshop

22 July 2024 10:00am–12:45pm

Virtual Training via Microsoft Teams

To register your interest for this workshop please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This workshop is aimed at Branch Officers, Stewards and Health & Safety reps.

The workshop will give an overview of the UNISON’s Race Discrimination Protocol and identify organising opportunities for branches and activists.

Branch Charge: £15 per delegate

Making Equality Central to your Union Practice (virtual)

23 July 2024 9:30am–4:00pm

Virtual training run via Microsoft Teams

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

Equality is written into our rule book and into our objectives and policies, but making equality part and parcel of everyday business is no small task. Making equality central to your union practice is a course that explores internal and external tools, which can support equality bargaining, negotiating, and representation. The course also looks at how to identify equality themes in organising and recruitment, as well as considering the different equality roles in UNISON and how you can utilise their support.

This course is open to all activists and will be delivered via Microsoft Teams.

Branch charge: £25 per delegate

Workplace Reps Virtual Refresher Training (ERA Re-accreditation)

5 – 13 September 2024

Virtual Training via Microsoft Teams (10:00-12:00 each day)

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This virtual training course will be delivered in 4 modules and it is designed to meet the requirements of the Employment Rights Act (ERA) re-accreditation for further training of steward and workplace reps.

Branch Charge: £30 per delegate

Making Equality Central to your Union Practice

18 September 2024

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

Equality is written into our rule book and into our objectives and policies, but making equality part and parcel of everyday business is no small task. Making equality central to your union practice is a course that explores internal and external tools, which can support equality bargaining, negotiating, and representation. The course also looks at how to identify equality themes in organising and recruitment, as well as considering the different equality roles in UNISON and how you can utilise their support.

Branch charge: £30 per delegate

Organising around the NHS Job Evaluation Scheme

25 September 2024 10:00am–3:30pm

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

The aims of the course are to enable the learner to:
• Introduce the role of UNISON in implementing job evaluation (JE)
• A recap on the role and importance of job evaluation (JE) including for equal pay
• Look at the key features of the NHS Job Evaluation scheme
• Find out more about how to ‘health-check’ your local JE practices and capacity
• Enable you to deal with initial job evaluation enquiries
• Identify organising and recruitment opportunities in the branch related to job evaluation
• Develop an action plan for your branch
• Signpost sources of help and guidance on job evaluation issues
• To encourage learners to get further involved with job evaluation and to consider training possibilities to become a job evaluation practitioner

Branch Charge: £30 per delegate

Health & Safety Representative Training

30 September – 4 October 2024

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch.

This course is essential for new Health and Safety Representatives, or for those Health and Safety Representatives who have more experience but who haven’t yet had the chance to go on this course.

This course will take place on 30 September, 1, 2, 3, 4 October 2024.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate

Organising Steward Virtual Training

24 September – 8 October 2024

Virtual Training via Microsoft Teams (3 x Tuesdays, 2 x Thursdays)

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This training will run on 24, 26 September, 1, 3, 8 October 2024 (3 x Tuesdays, 2 x Thursdays).

Our virtual steward course delivers the same learning outcomes as the face-to-face Stage 1 + Stage 2 workplace representatives course combination. We have transformed our classroom based course into an virtual course, delivered by an experienced tutor.

Branch Charge: £50 per delegate

Introduction to Employment Law

25 September – 9 October 2024

Virtual Training via Zoom (3 x Wednesdays, 9.30-13.00)

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This course is designed as a general introduction to the law on employment rights and contracts of employment and is aimed at stewards with little experience of employment law and no previous training in employment law beyond what is covered in the general stewards’ induction course: The Organising Steward.

Branch Charge: £50 per delegate

Writing a Motion and UNISON Structures

23 October 2024 10:00am–4:00pm

UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Centre, Leeds

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.

This workshop is aimed at activists who are considering submitting motions to National Delegate Conference, service group conferences or self-organised group conferences.

Branch Charge: £30 per delegate