YHGeneralEnquiries@unison.co.uk
0113 218 2627
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
2 – 4 October 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.
This is an introductory session for new UNISON learning reps.
The course will run on 2, 3, 4 October 2024 and will cover:
• the role of the UNISON learning rep
• how to find out what people want to learn – and how
• making the case for learning
• managing expectations
• networking and making contacts
• advertising and communicating with members
• where to find help and resources
Branch Charge: £90 per delegate
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
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
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
25 October 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.
This course is aimed at UNISON stewards, health & safety representatives and other branch officers. The course discusses the menopause as a collective issue for organising in the branch and with employers.
Branch Charge: £30 per delegate
13 – 14 November 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.
This 2 day course is designed to follow on from the 5 day Organising Stewards course or equivalent and is aimed at existing UNISON stewards. The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5 day course and explores in more detail:
• Process for identifying needs and exploring what is and isn’t a case
• Recap on sources of information especially the ACAS code
• Preparing for a grievance and a capability case
• Planning and building a case including interviewing witnesses
• Possible outcomes from cases.
Branch Charge: £60 per delegate
20 November 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.
This course is open to all branch officers and reps.
Years of outsourcing of public services have led to substantial deterioration in services and in the terms and conditions of members. Now some public organisations are open to the idea of bringing services back in house.
This course aims to persuade employers, members, and the public of the benefits of insourcing and will cover the following areas:
• Winning the arguments
• Identifying key targets
• Identifying allies
• Agitating for change and building a campaign
• Creating an action time-line
Branch Charge: £30 per delegate for the face-to-face training
2 – 6 December 2024
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds (9.30-16:00 each day)
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch.
This face to face training looks at what the roles of the steward are and gives you the skills, knowledge and understanding to carry out these roles, for example recruiting members and involving them in the union and how to work with members to tackle problems at work.
This course will run on 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 December 2024.
This course is 30 hours learning in total.
Branch Charge: £150 per delegate
