This year, CLC Ontario Region's Winter School will be held at Kempenfelt Conference Centre, 3722 Fairway Road, Innisfil, ON L9S 1A5. (Telephone: 1-705-722-8080). This weeklong school will run from Sunday, February 26 to Friday, March 2, 2012.
Courses Offered: Advanced Workplace Insurance Claim Strategies, Building Pension Activism, Collective Bargaining, Facing Management, Instructor Training, Labour Law - Private and Public, Labour Community Advocate, Occupational Health & Safety - Level 1, Transforming Conflict, Young Workers in Action.
Registration:
Registration will take place from 2:00 to 5:00 pm on Sunday. You must register at the CLC Registration Desk as well as check in at the Centre's reception.
Registration fees include accommodation, meals, course and material. Download the registration form here. The shared accommodation (double occupancy) fee is $950, single accommodation (single occupancy) fee is $1,250, and single accommodation with spouse fee is $1,575. The registration fee with no accommodation is $500 (includes meals).
Childcare is available for children 12 and under. Extra cost for children 12 - 16 years of age is $135 and for children over 16 is $325. Deadline for childcare application is February 12, 2012.
Cancellations: If for any reason a participant is unable to attend, please inform our office in writing by email: ontario@clc-ctc.ca or by fax: 416-441-4073 no later than two weeks prior to the start of the course. After February 12, 2012, cancellations will result in a $200 cancellation charge.
If you would like a printed copy of the brochure, please contact our office at 416-441-3710 Ext. 222 or 221.
Course Descriptions:
Advanced Workplace Insurance Claim Strategies*
(PTW2-Facilitating Work Re-integration, Written Submissions, CPP Appeals, Electronic Evidence, Chronic Pain Disability Claims and Mental Stress Claims.)
Now for the first time, the ODRT is offering a combination of short topical workshops for the experienced representative. Participants will be able to heighten their proficiency in various workplace insurance law matters. This course will cover interesting and advanced topics including: dealing with electronic evidence at appeals, appealing Mental Stress, Chronic Pain and CPP Disability claims, understanding how to craft the perfect written submission at the ARO or WSIAT level and the most current research and caselaw regarding accommodation of workers with disabilities. Hours can be credited towards the LSUC Professional Development requirements.
* An additional fee of $190.00 applies to this course.
Building Pension Activism
This course, offered through the Labour College of Canada, will help you understand your own pension plan, and the broader pension issues facing workers and retirees. Our goal is to train activists who can help union members with pensions and others without decent pensions. You are asked to bring your own pension plan documents so these can be used in the class discussions.
Collective Bargaining Level
This course develops a solid understanding of the bargaining process and the factors that affect collective bargaining. The course provides opportunities to practice preparing for and negotiating parts of a collective agreement. The course covers a working knowledge of the laws and rules that structure the bargaining process. It will be of interest to new bargaining committee members and local union officers. An increased focus on bargaining simulation sets this course apart from our previous collective bargaining courses.
Facing Management
This course deals with the evolving corporate agenda and management styles that are used to implement new programs in the workplace. You will learn about management’s hard-line and soft-line approaches and various workplace strategies. This course is designed to teach a critical awareness of the latest management tactics so the union can protect and advance its agenda. We hope to better equip participants with some of the necessary skills to deal with management and win the hearts and minds of your membership at the same time.
Instructor Training
This course gives participants the skills, knowledge and background to participate in Adult Education. The course gives participants a background in understanding how adults learn and what type of techniques are most effective within an adult learning environment. It also provides practical presentation skills for use in everyday union life. This course is a prerequisite to facilitating trade union education within the CLC and affiliated unions.
Labour Law (Private and Public) - Labour College Requirement
This course presents an overview of labour legislation and its impact on the strategies and actions of unions. Among the topics to be explored are: certification and dispute settlement procedures; unfair labour practices; the duty to bargain in good faith; strikes, lockouts and picketing; the duty of fair representation; management and union rights; and grievance arbitration law.
Labour Community Advocate - CANCELLED
This course is designed to make a clear connection between labour commitment to our members and to our communities. Participants are provided with information about some of the social issues faced by working people and the resources available in their community. As well, participants are provided with training about communicating and interacting with those who are facing difficult issues. This is a course for shop stewards, health and safety reps and those who wish to strengthen the links between labour and community activism.
Occupational Health and Safety Level I - CANCELLED
This flagship program is essential training for workers health & safety activists who want to exercise their legal rights & responsibilities fully. The program covers health & safety legislation for every jurisdiction in Canada as needed. It introduces the need for continuous bargaining, namely every conversation or meeting with the employer must be viewed as an opportunity to meet the union’s health and safety goals. Finally, the program debunks the myth of the careless worker and the latest expression of this myth, Behaviour Based Safety Programs, by focusing on a hazard-based approach to healthy and safe workplaces. Prerequisite to Level II Law & Committees programs and OHS Instructor Training.
Transforming Conflict - CANCELLED
This course will provide participants with a tool kit of strategies, tactics and skills to resolve specific disputes as well as conflicts in the workplace. The course focuses on mastering coaching and communication skills, investigative techniques, documenting facts, utilizing frameworks for analyzing disputes, problem solving strategies, evaluating options and identifying techniques to deal with systemic conflict.
Young Workers in Action
This course is designed to give young union activists the skills they need to be effective in their workplace. The course will cover public speaking, how meetings are run, how to read your contract, grievance handling, and the basic collective bargaining process. This is also a great course for new or soon to be stewards.
Participants are requested to bring a copy of their collective agreement.
Winter School 2012