Organising Steward – Sheffield

10 – 14 February 2025

Niagara Conference Centre, Niagara Road, Sheffield, S6 1LU

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

Local Learning Hubs – This is a new initiative where we are working to bring regional training opportunities closer to you.

This face to face course 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 10, 11, 12, 23, 24 February 2025.

This course is 30 hours learning in total.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate

Organising Steward Virtual Training

22 January – 7 February 2025

Virtual Training via Microsoft Teams (3 x Fridays, 2 x Wednesdays)

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 22, 24, 29, 31 January, 7 February 2025 (3 x Fridays, 2 x Wednesdays).

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

FULLY BOOKED Workplace Reps Refresher (ERA Re-accreditation)

4 – 5 February 2025

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

Race Protocol Virtual Workshop

30 January 2025 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

Organising Steward – Leeds

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

[Cancelled] Supporting Reps Wellbeing

27 November 2024 10:00am–1:00pm

Virtual Workshop run via Zoom

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

This Supporting reps wellbeing virtual workshop is open to all branch officers and reps.

This is an interactive workshop which explores issues affecting reps using the stress container model.

This is a virtual workshop which will be run via Zoom.

There is a branch charge of £15 per delegate for this training.

Bargaining & Campaigning for Insourcing

20 November 2024

Virtual Training via Microsoft Teams

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: £25 per delegate for this virtual training

[Fully booked] Organising Steward – Leeds

11 – 15 November 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 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 November 2024.

This course is 30 hours learning in total.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate

Further Representation Skills – Leeds

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

Equalities Officer Training

9 – 11 November 2024

UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds

We are running the following officer training courses on Saturday 9 November:
– Black Members Officer Training
– Disabled Members Officer Training
– Women’s Officer Training
– Young Members Officer Training

Apply by: 7 October 2024

Cost to Branches: £30 per delegate