Programs

Our union needs the voices and priorities of women at the negotiating table. Are you already a member of your bargaining committee, or interested in developing skills to take an active part in union negotiations?

If women are to realize true equality it means engaging in political action and challenging power.

This 40-hour course is for Advocates who have been selected or elected under a bargained Women’s Advocate program.

This course is designed specifically for members aged 35 and under, to further develop their skills and to ensure they can access the necessary tools to play an active role in the union.

Conflict. It's part of our personal lives and part of our working lives.

This course covers a wide range of issues, such as women's work, history and activism, and how we can work towards equality.

This course is for Employee & Family Assistance or Substance Abuse Representatives or new peer referral agents who have not yet had the opportunity to take part in the CLC Labour Community Advocate (previously Union Counselling) course in their communities.

The course begins by examining the nature of work and exploring what workers have in common today. We look at how work, conditions of work, and control over work have been shaped by the development of the capitalist system from colonialism to the present day.

You will learn some of the “tricks and traps” of public speaking and respectful conversations.

This week-long program focuses on the importance of preparation, research, drafting contract language and maximizing your bargaining power by developing a strategic approach to bargaining.

This course is designed to provide workplace union environment representatives and local union environment committee members with tools and strategies for limiting the damage our workplaces have on the environment.

Did you know?…Ontario has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the world – a shocking 29%. For every $1.00 earned by men, women earn just 71¢.

Participants discuss the causes and solutions to the hazardous working conditions workers face in the workplace and learn about regulations and legislation required under the Occupational Health and Safety Act .

This Ontario Federation of Labour program combines a series of short workshops on topical WSIB issues.

This three-day course on workers’ compensation is for workers' compensation advocates (both new and experienced), bargaining committee members, stewards and committeepersons, worker health and safety committee members, other union workplace representatives, and interested members.

This Health and Safety program focuses specifically on health and safety provisions known as Part II of the Code.

This 5 day course is an introduction to accident investigation. The prime objective of accident investigation is prevention – finding the causes of an accident and taking steps to control or eliminate it can help prevent similar accidents from happening in the future.

This is a hands-on course that members and Health and Safety representatives will find invaluable in the work they do on behalf of working people.

This course has been designed to demystify the "Ergonomic Process", allowing our leadership/activists to see beyond the one-dimensional aspect of injury reduction (important as this is), while also recognizing a powerful tool to be used to improve the ergonomic and psycho-social well-being of our members as they proceed through their working lives.

The medical orientation course is a comprehensive program designed to break down the barrier of communicating in 'medicalese'.

This introductory course will introduce new committee members to the basic principles of workplace health and safety. Unifor has developed this course to meet the standard and the 3 important changes to the WCB Regulation that became effective April 1, 2017.

This 3-day program is designed for local union workplace representatives and their management counterparts, and is designed to increase the investigator’s communication skills, knowledge, and confidence to deal with harassment complaints.

Unionism on Turtle Island is a course in which we will explore the shared history between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Our week-long human rights program is a must for leadership and activists in our growing, diverse union.

Would you like to know how shop stewards or committeepersons investigate grievances, present them to management and write them up properly?

Are you a Chairperson, Steward or a Committeeperson? Would you like to develop or sharpen your skills?

This program is designed to equip workplace leaders within the health care sector, with the skills and tools needed to defend the rights of workers and to develop an understanding of the role of a workplace representative in building a strong membership and local union.

This course is a basic introduction for production standards reps and in-plant reps whose job it is to challenge management’s job standards.

This workshop is about identifying the hazard of workplace bullying. It will give workers and union representatives the tools to help identify, investigate and resolve the very serious issue of Workplace Bullying.