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SUMMARY:Basic Steward Training with Deb Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:This 5-week course is designed to focus on BASIC Stewards training: \n\nExpectations of a steward ~ What is a Steward anyway?\nWhat you need to have ~ Resources necessary to do the job\nOrganizing vs Servicing ~ Attitude and approach to solution solving\nYour rights and obligations as a steward ~ How to deal with management\nWeingarten Rights~ How to investigate a grievance ~ dealing with members\nGrievances ~ Writing\, Investigating\, and Presenting\nGrievance Case study ~ Role play\n\nStudents should expect to actively participate in the discussions each week\, bringing  experiences\, real time problems and ideas for solutions to the issues they face as  stewards in their workplace. Copies of the contract the students are currently working with as well as copies of local union bylaws\, constitutions\, or any other governing  documents should be available for students to check and use as a resource. \nInstructed by: Deb Sullivan\, Retired Associate Director of Labor Education~ Massachusetts Nurses Association \n 
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/basic-steward-training-with-deb-sullivan/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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SUMMARY:Building Union Strength Through Conflict Resolution with Ed Watt
DESCRIPTION:During this training\, participants will: \n\nUnderstand the root causes\, types\, and effects of workplace conflict.\nLearn how awareness and intentional responses can shift conflict outcomes toward collaboration.\nPractice communication tools—such as active listening\, open-ended questioning\, and reflection—to de-escalate tension and strengthen relationships.\nParticipate in small and large group exercises\, culminating in a role-play based on real-life workplace scenarios.\n\nWhen completing this workshop\, the attendees will view conflict as an opportunity to  grow the union and actively promote understanding in the workplace. \nInstructed by Ed Watt: \nAt age 16\, Ed Watt started his union career as a member of Local 338 RWDSU. Working for the New York City Transit Authority\, he became a proud member of Transport Workers Union Local 100. At 30\, he became the chief steward of Flatbush depot in Brooklyn\, New York\, serving over  800 bus operators. In 2001\, he was elected Financial Secretary-Treasurer of the 38\,000- member local. He would serve three terms and then move on to positions in the Transport  Workers Union International and the Amalgamated Transit Union International. He is now the  principal of WattADR\, an alternative dispute resolution practice. He holds a master’s degree in  industrial and labor relations from Baruch/Cornell MSILR and a graduate certificate in  Transportation Safety from San Jose State University. \n 
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/building-union-strength-through-conflict-resolution-with-ed-watt/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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SUMMARY:Free Workshop: Runaway Inequality and the Crisis of U.S. Health Care
DESCRIPTION:Description: \nOur healthcare system isn’t working. It costs too much and covers too few people. And at the bargaining table\, year after year\, unions and employers face off over who will pay for the ever-escalating costs.  This course offers and in-depth examination of the U.S. healthcare system\, how we compare to other countries\, and who really benefits from it. We’ll consider how healthcare impacts collective bargaining\, how insurance companies behave\, and how the Canadian healthcare system works. And we’ll look at the possibility of a solution that can deliver high-quality\, affordable healthcare for everyone. \nComponents: \n\nIntroduction\nHealthcare Benefits and Collective Bargaining\nCan We Afford Better Healthcare?\nHow Do Insurance Companies Make Money?\nWhat’s the Alternative to Employer-Based\, For-Profit Health Insurance?\nHow Would Medicare for All Affect Workers?\nObjections and Responses to Medicare for All\n\nInstructors: \nKatherine Isaac\, Executive Director\, Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute \nRose Roach\, National Coordinator\, Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/free-workshop-runaway-inequality-and-the-crisis-of-u-s-health-care/
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