| Course | Calendar of activities |
| Condensed | Team of Educators |
Below you will find the course descriptions. The fact of following a course does not make you a specialist, but the knowledge which you will have learned along with your union experience will allow you to respond to the needs of the members within your base unit. Of course, the support provided by your Union representative will always be required until you obtain further experience.
The course program is divided into two groups:
Course #A01 Union delegate (in French 001)
This course provides the delegate with the necessary tools to affect their work and build their confidence towards the members and the employer. It is the first course that should be taken and is considered to be a pre-requisite for some of the other courses in the program.
Following this course, the participant should be able to:
• understand the role of the union
• understand the structure of our union
• understand the work of a delegate with regards to the members
• understand their role with regards to the members of the executive
Course #A11 Role of the Executive Committee Members and the functioning of the general assembly (in French 011)
This course offers members elected to a position within the union executive the tools to be able to fulfill their function.
Following this course, the participant should be able to:
• understand the role of each member of the executive
committee
• determine, when needed, the mandates that could be confided to other
committees and the creation of these committees
• how to work within a team with the other members of the executive, the
other committees and the members as a whole
• establish a policy to regulate the expenditures of the base unit
• prepare and hold a general assembly meeting, and understand the main
rules of procedure
• meet with the employer to discuss and regulate problems
• understand the role of the representative and use those services efficiently.
Course #A09 The Grievance Procedure (in French 009)
Pre-requisite: to have followed the union delegate course (#001) or role of the executive committee members (#011). This course completes the training of a union delegate and the member of a union executive.
Following this course, the participant should be able to:
• identify if a situation merits a grievance
• draft a grievance
• use the collective agreement
Course #A02 The Grievance Dossier: investigation and constitution of a dossier with relation to a regulation or arbitration (in French 002)
Pre-requisite: to have followed the union delegate course (#001) and the grievance procedure (#009). This course is considered a second level and is aimed at developing the mannerisms of investigating grievances in order to better defend our members.
Following this course, the participant should be able to:
• build a grievance dossier
• verify the applicable rights
• plan an investigation in view of depositing a grievance
• draft an investigation report
• understand the process related to the arbitration of grievances
• deposit a grievance and follow its procedure
Course #012 Decree for Building Maintenance (this course is not available in English)
This course is aim at informing and making the participants aware of the importance of the decrees, their origin, their function and their affects.
Following this course, the participant should be able to:
• understand what a decree is and why they were created
• understand the benefits of a decree
• understand the affects of the decrees on the industry and on the working
conditions
• understand the relationship between the decrees and the collective agreements.
Course #A15 Psychological Harassment within the workplace (in French 015)
This course is aimed at providing the participants with the necessary information required to recognize at risk situations that could result in psychological harassment or those that do constitute real harassment.
Following this course, the participants should be able to:
• understand what is considered psychological harassment
and what is not considered
• recognize the situations of harassment
• prevent these situations
• understand the recourses available concerning psychological harassment.
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Occupational Health and Safety Group
Course #A04 – How to get organized within occupational health and safety and accident investigations (in French 004)
It is strongly recommended to have followed the union delegate course (001) prior to registering in the course How to get organized within occupational health and safety and accident investigations.
This course provides the participants with an awareness regarding the prevention of accidents within their workplace. Following this course, the participants should be able to:
• understand what is an occupational accident in accordance
to the Law
• understand the main rights of workers with regards to health and safety
• adequately react in the case of an occupational accident
• understand the role of the union with regards to occupational health
and safety
• set up a health and safety committee
• do an accident investigation
Course #A06 – Filing a claim in occupational health and safety (in French 006)
Pre-requisite: to have followed the course how to get organized in occupational health and safety (#004).
This course provides participants with the necessary knowledge to be able to file a claim with CSST following an occupational injury or occupational disease. Following this course, the participants should be able to:
• understand the admissibility requirements regarding
CSST benefits
• complete an accident declaration
• understand the list or occupational diseases recognized by CSST
• help a worker draft a claim with CSST and fill out the notice to the
employer
• understand the obligations of a worker who is victim of an employment
injury
• understand the obligations of the employer following an employment injury
• have the workers right to return to work respected
• assist an injured worker in their process of rehabilitation
• understand the possible steps following the deposit of a claim against
the Commission
Condensed courses group together and summarize the contents from two or three courses into one course. These types of courses are aimed at members who have been newly elected within the union structure and who require training when there is no basic course available within the short term. The objective of these sessions is to offer those members the necessary tools in order to understand their role and responsibilities.
A condensed course does not replace courses #001, #011 and #004 as a pre-requisite for the other courses. You must follow courses #001, #011 and #004 prior to registering for those courses where a pre-requisite is required. A condensed course may be organized upon the request of a representative within a region according to the possibilities and certain other conditions.
Calendar of activities — Course numbers with an "A" beside them, are courses that are given in English.
The educators from the Service Employees Union, Local 800 are experienced militants who have received training that allows them to pass on their union knowledge.
Pierre Michel
He is vice-president at Club de golf Royal Québec (services)
since 1991, and has been member of the negotiation team from the beginning.
Pierre joined the education team in June 2006.
Gérard R. Séguin
He is President of his base unit at the Saint-Joseph Oratory
since 2000. He has been implicated in his base unit for several years: executive
committee since 1993, health and safety committee since 1993, the collective
insurance committee since 1993, and pension committee since 1995. He is also
a member of the health and safety committee at the SEU Local 800 since 2002,
member of the General Council since March 2003 and Vice-President of the Executive
Committee of the SEU since the convention in 2003. He joined the education team
during the year 2003.
Patrick Métivier
Chantal Claude
Serge Vachon