Employment Law: Unfair Dismissals

3 July 2026

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 one-day course uses case studies to explore various types of unfair dismissal case and examines:

• conduct
• consistency
• capability
• disciplinary policies
• tribunals and time limits

Branch Charge: £30 per delegate

Wellbeing and Resilience for Professionals

7 July 2026 9:30am–4:30pm

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Canal Wharf, Leeds, LS11 5PS

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

This course is being provided by Mind, and has been developed especially to support our Reps and Activists to manage the pressures of the role and maintain a healthy mental state.

Aims of the course are:
Effective boundary setting and management
Understand and develop peer support networks
Develop tools and techniques to support positive mental health in your UNISON role.

Branch charge: £30 per delegate

Making Equality Central to your Union Practice

8 July 2026 9:30am–4:00pm

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

Workplace Reps Refresher Training (ERA Re-accreditation)

9 – 10 July 2026

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 training course will be delivered in over two days, face to face at Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Centre in Leeds. 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: £60 per delegate

Organising Steward – Leeds

13 – 17 July 2026

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

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 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 July 2026.

This course is 30 hours learning in total.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate