Past Events

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

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.

• Recruiting members
• Keeping members informed
• How to raise issues in UNISON
• Proportionality and fair representation
• Interviewing members
• Understanding your grievance and disciplinary procedures.

Branch Charge: £125 per delegate

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

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.

• Recruiting members
• Keeping members informed
• How to raise issues in UNISON
• Proportionality and fair representation
• Interviewing members
• Understanding your grievance and disciplinary procedures.

Branch Charge: £125 per delegate

This training will run on 9, 12, 16, 19, 23 May 2023 (2 x Tuesdays, 3 x Fridays).

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

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: £30 per delegate

To apply please complete and application form, and send it to your branch for approval.  You will need approval from another branch officer to attend.

Good education within the Branch is vital for making local organisation work.  This course is for Branch Education Co-ordinators and will look at how to identify your Branch education needs, how to budget for education, and how to encourage and support representatives in training.

Cost to Branches:
£50 non-residential (2 days) per delegate
£165 residential (2 days with one night accommodation on the Saturday night) per delegate

To register your interest for this course please add your details to the form below.

The course is aimed at anyone who has to chair a formal trade union meeting, whether it be a Branch meeting, Branch Committee, Working Group or Self Organised Group. Find out how to practise the skills needed to run a meeting that is fair to all participants. This is suitable for all activists but especially Branch Chairs.

Cost to Branches:
£50 non-residential (2 days) per delegate
£165 residential (2 days with one night accommodation on the Saturday night) per delegate

To apply please complete and application form, and send it to your branch for approval.  You will need approval from another branch officer to attend.

This course will provide Lifelong Learning Co-ordinators with the knowledge and skills to effectively establish UNISON’s learning and skills agenda in their workplace and successfully support the work of others to achieve branch aims around learning and skills.

Cost to Branches:
£50 non-residential (2 days) per delegate
£165 residential (2 days with one night accommodation on the Saturday night) per delegate

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

This two-day course is aimed at activists with little experience of negotiating, or those with some experience but who wish to improve their skills.

The course will demonstrate:

• How to be a more effective team negotiator
• Different negotiating styles
• Analysis of the different stages of negotiations
• Building negotiating skills through role practice

This face-to-face training will take place at UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House. This is a non-residential course.

Branch Charge: £50 per delegate