Working with Your Trade Union
This one day course aims to give staff, officers, and students an understanding of the relevance of Trade Unions both inside and outside of education. It tackles some of the problems and conflicts that can emerge when working locally, and also identifies potential benefits that are possible when these organisations work together. It takes a holistic approach, recognising that recent struggles have in some cases brought unions together locally, and in others caused considerable difficulty.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Outline the purpose of trade unions, and their relevance in a precarious working climate
- Explore Trade Union recent history in relation to Students’ Unions
- Identify some of the potential conflicts and barriers to joint working
- Explore the value of Trade Unions for students as workers
- Evaluate which of the joint campaigning priorities of National Union of Students and Trade Unions Congress are relevant locally
- Determine which projects and priorities of the Students’ Union could benefit from joint working with local Trade Unions
- Generate a plan for joint working that will also respond to the needs of the student body
Cost
6 – 12 participants £650
12 – 20 participants £850
Please contact heather@magneticideals.org for further details or to book your session. Let us know if there are ways we can tailor this training to respond to the specific needs of your organisation!
We encourage organisations to work together in partnership to allow training to happen and are happy to train multi-organisation cohorts.
10% discount for courses run in August 2018.