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Making Equality Central to your Union Practice – Taunton (CANCELLED)

Date
11 July 2023 9:30am–4:30pm
Location
Taunton

Equality is written into our rule book and into our objectives and policies but making equality part 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.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Making Equality Central to your Union Practice – Exeter ( CANCELLED)

Date
18 April 2023 9:30am–4:30pm
Location
Exeter

Equality is written into our rule book and into our objectives and policies but making equality part 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

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Communicating with Members – online

Date
17 May 2023 9:30am–4:30pm
Location
ONLINE

This is a one-day course aimed at helping stewards communicate effectively with members from an organising perspective. It provides an opportunity to develop skills in a variety of communication methods including starting conversations, managing discussions, listening to members’ views, and using emails and other media.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Communicating with Members Bristol

Date
22 June 2023 9:30am–4:30pm
Location
Bristol

This is a one-day course aimed at helping stewards communicate effectively with members from an organising perspective. It provides an opportunity to develop skills in a variety of communication methods including starting conversations, managing discussions, listening to members’ views, and using emails and other media.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Communicating with Members – Taunton (CANCELLED)

Date
19 April 2023 9:30am–4:30pm
Location
Taunton

This is a one-day course aimed at helping stewards communicate effectively with members from an organising perspective. It provides an opportunity to develop skills in a variety of communication methods including starting conversations, managing discussions, listening to members’ views, and using emails and other media.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Further Representation Skills – NEW (CANCELLED)

Date
29 June – 6 July 2023
Location
ONLINE

The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5-day organising stewards course and explores learning in more detail.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Further Representation Skills – NEW – Exeter

Date
14 – 15 June 2023
Location
EXETER

The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5-day organising stewards course and explores learning in more detail.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Further Representation Skills – NEW

Date
24 – 25 April 2023
Location
Bristol

The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5-day organising stewards course and explores learning in more detail.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Further Representation Skills – NEW – Taunton

Date
29 – 30 March 2023
Location
Taunton

The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5-day organising stewards course and explores learning in more detail.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Branch Officers Weekend

Date
6 – 9 July 2023
Location
Croyde Bay, North Devon

The return of our famous Branch Officers Weekend will take place at Croyde Bay, North Devon from Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 July 2023.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Public Speaking & Speech Writing – 2 days (FULLY BOOKED )

Date
13 July 2023 9:30am–4:30pm
Location
Taunton

This course is aimed at all reps, stewards and branch officers who want to feel more confident speaking in public and crafting effective speeches, whether at conferences, rallies, or branch meetings.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Branch Treasurers – Module 3 (OLBA)

This course is for Branch Treasurers for use of OLBA ( Online Branch Accounting) Module 3. Please note that modules 1-2 (e-notes) must be completed before attending module 3. Each module takes around 3 hours to deliver.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Workshops on political Education

We have a number of political workshops that are available to be run in branches as part of branch development days, branch committees etc. Each workshop is between one and 3 hours in duration.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Education Network Power hour – CANC

Date
6 December 2023 12:30pm–1:30pm
Location
Online - via zoom

A great opportunity to network with other reps from the Education network. Power hours are a great way for Education Officers , Lifelong Learning Reps and ULRs to boost skills to support learning in the workplace.

Event on the UNISON South West site.

Education Network Power hour – online (POSTPONED)

Date
13 June 2023 12:30pm–1:30pm
Location
Online - via zoom

A great opportunity to network with other reps from the Education network. Power hours are a great way for Education Officers , Lifelong Learning Reps and ULRs to boost skills to support learning in the workplace. In this power hour lets learn about how can we communicate more confidently about the learning offer in UNISON?

Event on the UNISON South West site.