There is no charge to bring a spouse/guest. The cost for the weekly meal plan is $545.15, the meal plan includes breakfast, lunch and dinner in the Copper Room with CLC delegates. Registered participants must be in single accommodations. Guests can be registered on-line, however they must register and pay at the hotel front desk.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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There is no charge for a guest to stay with a registered participant at Winter School. The registered participant must be in single accommodations. Guests can be registered on-line, however, the guest must register at the front desk to receive room keys. Guests will not receive badges and Copper Room meals are NOT included with this option, guest will have to make alternate meal arrangements.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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Are you a woman or someone who identifies as gender diverse who has been elected in your local union, provincial, or community organization? Do you aim to expand your influence and connect with a larger audience? Perhaps you’ve considered or have already run in municipal, provincial, or federal campaigns? If any of these resonate with you, this course awaits you!
This course is designed as the next step for leaders confronting the daily challenges that come with high-pressure campaigns. Dive deep into innovative campaigning, strategic planning, and honing your message. Through enhancing communication and presentation skills, participants will depart with the necessary tools to confidently convey their message, whether it’s on camera, in face-to-face debates, or on new media platforms.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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This course will look at economic, political, social forces at play between union and management. It will examine the roles and rights of each group and the different types of union/management relationships and styles. We will look at the power, bias, and privilege dynamics between union and management and how we can communicate effectively. We will focus on problem solving - understanding issues, developing strategies, finding and presenting facts and argument, finding areas of agreement, building solutions, implementing and maintaining solutions. Participants can expect lots of participation, interaction, and role-plays along with practical skills and tools for communication, analysis, strategy and critical thinking.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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This course is designed to introduce participants to the practical skills required to prepare and present a case at an arbitration hearing. Special emphasis is placed on evidence, examination and cross-examination, the opening statement and final argument. You will also discuss current trends and cases dealing with the arbitration process. This course would be useful for grievance committee members or chairpersons, or union staff or officers who have not yet had extensive experience with the arbitration process.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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This is a two-part course. Parliamentary Procedure covers how to run a meeting effectively, the duties of a chairperson and secretary, and how the rules of order can provide a democratic and fair process to get the business of the union accomplished. Public Speaking covers how to speak persuasively to various groups and how different formats are used to speak at convention, debates, and impromptu gatherings. There is a scholarship available for this course through the CLC Pacific Region office. Please see the Frank Wall Leadership Development Scholarship information on page 18 of the Winter School brochure for details, or visit our website at: www.winterschool.ca.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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This course is designed to equip participants with tools and strategies for successful work reintegration outcomes. Participants will explore leading research and learn the principles of good work reintegration practices and the duty to accommodate. The course has a strong focus on the analysis and interpretation of human rights obligations and particularly the duty to accommodate. Barriers to successful work reintegration are addressed with a focus on attitudinal barriers and their elimination using the social model of disability and therapeutic return to work principles. An in-depth comparison between older methods of disability management and the newer, progressive disability prevention model is presented and participants learn about the paradigm shift from management to prevention.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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The steward is often the main point of contact between the union, its members, management, and the larger labour movement. This course builds the skills, confidence, and knowledge a steward needs to represent their members. Participants will learn the roles and responsibilities of their position as stewards, the handling of grievances and complaints, problem solving skills, protecting contractual provisions in the collective agreement and current issues for stewards.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024 12:00 PM
2/11/2024
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This course is for chief stewards, business and assistant business managers, local officers, and stewards with considerable experience handling grievances. You will practise more advanced grievance-handling skills using real life case studies and role-plays. Participants will discuss discipline grievances, harassment, drug and alcohol issues, and different styles of management. This course will deal with procedures before the process of arbitration. Please bring your collective agreement with you.
Knowledge of the first stages of the grievance process will be assumed.
Prerequisite: Steward Training Level 1 or equivalent union course.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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This is an invitation-only course
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024 12:00 PM
2/11/2024
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This course provides a review of the Workers Compensation Act, how the Board functions, procedures for filing claims, WCB policies for adjudicating claims, and the appeals process. This is a basic course and will interest those union members just starting to handle WCB claims and appeals. This class will observe a hearing presentation to a panel of the Review Division.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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This course is for union members wanting to improve their WCB advocacy skills. Participants will assist an injured worker in a mock appeal where their injury has been denied by the WCB. The class will review how to seek a doctor's opinion in support of the injured worker, how to question the worker at an appeal hearing, and how to present argument regarding occupational injury and disability. Participants are encouraged to discuss the specific types of work-related injuries and benefits that their members are having denied or not dealt with properly, and emphasis will be placed on how to apply one's advocacy skills to those types of cases. At the end of the week, the class will participate in a mock hearing of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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This course is designed to give young union activists (aged 30 and under) the skills they need to be effective in their workplace. The course will cover public speaking, how meetings are run, how to read your contract, grievance handling, and the basic collective bargaining process. Participants are requested to bring a copy of their collective agreement.
There is a scholarship available from Community Savings Credit Union for this course. Interested applicants should contact Community Savings or download the scholarship information package and application form from our website: https://canadianlabour.ca/who-we-are/labour-education/.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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Free child care is available for children of eligible delegates. An eligible delegate is a single parent, a parent NOT accompanied by a spouse/companion, or where BOTH parents are delegates. There is a limited number of spots available in the child care program. Spots will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Delegates requiring child care must pre-register and indicate child care on their registration form. Requests for child care are do not constitute guaranteed spots in the childcare program. The deadline for childcare registrations is December 8, 2023. Requests received after this deadline will only be accommodated if there is room in the childcare program. Cancellations are required and must be received 14 days in advance of your attendance at Winter School. Failure to cancel booked childcare space(s) will result in a “no show fee” of $300.00.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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Friday: Departs Harrison Hot Springs Resort at 12:00pm. Arrives: Guildford Library 13:30; 100 Woolridge St. Coquitlam (near IKEA) 14:00; Vancouver Airport 15:00 for flights departing after 17:00; Vancouver Depot 15:45. There is a non-refundable $20 fee/per trip for the bus. This is payable in advance to the CLC.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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Departure Times: Sunday: Pacific Central Station (1150 Station St., Vancouver) 12:30; 100 Woolridge Street, Coquitlam (near IKEA) 13:30; Guildford Library (15105-105th Ave., Surrey) 14:00. Arrives in Harrison at approximately 15:30. All times are approximate. Be sure to arrive early, the bus does not wait. The bus is a Wilson's Transportation Ltd. charter and picks up from the lane outside the Vancouver station. There is a non-refundable $20/per trip fee for the bus. This is payable to the CLC in advance.
Time
2/11/2024 - 2/16/2024
2/11/2024
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