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Advanced Representation Training for Stewards

October 23, 2015 to October 26, 2015
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Hilton Metrotown, Burnaby, BC (Map)
Sign-up Deadline: 
September 11, 2015
Register online:

The PSAC is pleased to offer this advanced course for Union representatives.

If you are a PSAC Steward with some experience representing members with management and you want to improve and practice your representational skills, then this course is for you.

Course hours (approximately): Friday, Oct 23rd 9:00 a.m. to Monday, Oct 26th 4:00 p.m. (including an evening activity)

Pre-Requisites: Applicants must be PSAC members in good standing who have:

  • completed a Talking Union Basics (TUB) or National Aboriginal People’s Circle (NAPC) courses or equivalent;
  • completed a Grievance Handling (GH) course or equivalent; and
  • experience representing members in the workplace with management.

Course Overview: The Advanced Representation Training for Stewards (ARTS) course is an advanced four-day course with a focus on representation. You will look at various routes for engaging members in helping them to resolve workplace issues. You will deepen your knowledge of the processes and legal framework of grievance handling and what is needed from you to support the PSAC’s representation of members at all levels of the grievance process, up to arbitration/adjudication.
Using case studies based on grievances that have been to arbitration/adjudication, you will practice steps in the grievance process including:

  • interviewing a member
  • fact-finding
  • meeting with management for initial problem solving
  • drafting a grievance
  • preparing for a grievance hearing, and
  • representing a member at a grievance hearing

The Details: The PSAC will provide travel, accommodation, meal and incidental allowances, loss of salary, and reimbursement of family care costs, in accordance with the PSAC Travel and Family Care policies.  Please note that this is an advanced in-residence course so hotel accommodation will be provided for all participants including those living in the Vancouver area.

PSAC representatives interested in this course are asked to apply online by Friday September 11, 2015.

Any questions:  Please contact : Deb Seaboyer, BC Regional Education Officer, c/o PSAC Vancouver Regional Office at phone: 604-430-5631 / 1-800-663-1655 x 1748 or via email at seaboyd@psac.com

All applicants will be contacted by September 30, 2015 to advise if they have been accepted as a participant on the course. Details about travel, accommodation, expenses, etc. will be sent to union representatives selected as course participants by October 7, 2015.

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