Winning The Organised Workplace

Targeted at: All stewards and the branch team in selected branches
Duration: 1 day

What You and Your Union Can Gain From The Course? * How to plan and develop collective organisation which puts members and their interests at the heart of everything we do
* How to use a mapping exercise to run workplace meetings and to know who and where our members are
* You will learn how to organise effective representation and negotiations for all our members and with all employers
* You will identify areas for development and set up a branch plan to enable the development of your branch

How The Course Will Work?
We will work with the Head of Organisation & Development, the Officer, the Organiser and the Core Branch Team to introduce an organising model tailored to the specific needs of your branch.

Objectives
* Introduce the organising approach
* Introduce branch development and organisation planning
* Develop the idea that the process is on-going
* Identify ways of overcoming problems which might prevent effective planning

2010

Foyle Branch – 18 February – Gransha Hospital Site
Causeway Branch – Monday 1 March – Causeway Hotel, Coleraine
Belfast City Hosp. – 24 February – Belfast City Hospital
Down Education – Tuesday 2 March – Belfast
North & West – 19 March – UNISON Office, Belfast
South & East – 25 March, Knockbracken Healthcare Park
United & Homefirst – Mon. 10 May – Braidvalley Hospital
Southern Education – Thurs. 13 May – Lurgan Library
Belfast Education - tbc