National Union of Public Employees (NUPE)

This one day course aims to improve members’ awareness of the intentions of the Employment Relations Act an how it impacts on their role with both employees and employers; and how to enhance their effectiveness at influencing the pay and conditions of low paid workers.

The aim of this course is to develop members’ understanding of the Union ’s role in the wider public sector; to give members the opportunity to discuss and develop bargaining strategies in the context of their particular circumstances; to allow members to develop techniques for implementing bargaining strategies.

The aim of this course is to develop members’ understanding of the Union’s role in the NGO Health sector; to give members the opportunity to discuss and develop bargaining strategies in the context of their particular circumstances; to allow members to develop techniques for implementing bargaining strategies.

The aim of this course is to develop members’ understanding of the Union’s role in the private sector; to give members the opportunity to discuss and develop bargaining strategies in the context of their particular circumstances; to allow members to develop techniques for implementing bargaining strategies.

This one day course is intended for experienced delegates who have successfully completed NUPE’s Introductory Training Course for Delegates: Understanding Organising. The course will build on the skills and knowledge developed in the introductory course, with a focus on developing skills for managing and resolving conflict. By the end of the course, participants will have:

• Developed their understanding of the legal context they operate in and identify the legal means of resolving conflict.
• Developed their negotiation skills and increase their confidence in using these skills to resolve conflict.
• Identified a range of options and processes they should use when dealing with conflict in the workplace using their knowledge and skills learned and developed on the course.
• Set themselves a small self initiated goal for their own work site which will act as their self assessment task in collaboration with their NUPE organiser.

This five hour course aims to develop delegates’:

• Ability to successfully communicate with confidence in their role as delegates
• Understanding of “workplace bullying” and to develop their skills to deal with it
• Understanding of advocacy and to develop skills to successfully advocate on behalf of members