Bargaining for Equality course for shop stewards and equality reps

The bargaining for equality course supports all reps with understanding equality issues and how to bring equality into the mainstream bargaining and organising agenda. It provides all the tools needed to take the learning back to the workplace. The course aims to improve knowledge, skills and confidence of all reps, whether you usually deal with equality issues or not.

Aims of the course

• To enable reps to review some basic legal issues relating to equality and discrimination at work
• To help reps identify under-represented groups of members and understand the barriers preventing such groups from playing a wider role in the union
• help reps develop the knowledge and skills to incorporate equality issues into their collective bargaining with management
• enable reps to understand the concept of “mainstreaming” equality within the organisations they work for and their unions.
• To help reps plan how to build equality issues into their work as a rep back in the workplace

This free course is run as a weekend school to support reps to attend if facilities time is difficult to obtain. All accommodation and food is provided. There will be a charge for delegates who register but do not turn up and a full time official from your union will need to authorise your application form. Please note this is a Wales TUC event and priority will be given to applications from reps based within Wales.

Place: Dragon Hotel, Swansea
Dates: Friday 23rd April to Sunday 25th April
Times: Starting at 6pm Friday and finishing by 11.30am Sunday
Who is it for: Shop Stewards, Equality Reps, Health and Safety Reps and any other rep who would like to learn more about equality

For further information and an application form please contact Jo Rees at Wales TUC Cymru on 02920 34 7010 or email jrees@tuc.org.uk

The Wales TUC is pleased to announce the dates for this year’s equality conferences.

Please follow the links below for more information and contact your union’s regional office if you would like to attend as a delegate or submit motions to any of these conferences.

Challenging Racism Conference, Cardiff - 30th October. Click here for more info.

Women’s Conference, Bridgend - 18/19 November. Click here for more info.

LGBT Conference, Cardiff - 30th November. Click here for more info.

A pan equality conference funded by the Welsh Assembly Government will also be organised and more details provided shortly.

All people are welcome to come along to LGBT conference. Find out more by clicking on the flyer:

CHAPTER hosts the first Wales TUC LGBT conference on Friday and Saturday, February 27, 28. The two-day event will involve high level guest speakers, lively interactive workshops and a chance for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to not only talk about the issues affecting their lives but also to have some fun!

There will also be screenings of films that have been chosen as winners in the annual Iris Prize Festival which is held in Cardiff every year organised by the Festivals Company, other gay films that have been shortlisted for international film festivals and the BBC Wales programme that follows Ian H Watkins as the places in South Wales that forged his childhood.

AN exhibition by NUJ photographers will be open during the course of the conference along with those submitted by LGBT people across Wales. Both have the theme of LGBT lives in Wales in 2009. There is a £100 prize for the winning submitted photography courtesy of NUJ Cymru Wales.
For more information on entering the competition click here.

Only one session of the conference will be restricted to official LGBT delegates from affiliated trade unions – all the other events and the films, exhibitions and other social events to be advertised at Chapter are open to all.

For more details visit:
LGBT Conference 2009

Seminar to discuss new challenges and solutions on equal pay: organised as part of the Wales Close the Pay Gap Campaign

This one day Equal Pay seminar will provide you with an update on recent legislation and provide practical examples of how other organisations have overcome the barriers to achieving equal pay for women and men. We shall facilitate you in developing a programme of action that is specific to your workplace with access to equality experts who can support you.

The seminar objectives are to:
• Provide up-to-date information about recent legal developments on equal pay
• Bring together employer and union reps to make progress in closing pay gap
• Strengthen employer-union partnerships through identifying barriers and solutions
• Develop workplace specific actions and supporting your leadership role
• Signpost practical follow up support for the employer-union partnerships.

You are encouraged to attend in partnership with your employer so that you can develop a shared understanding of the issues for your workplace and draft a programme of actions to take forward following the seminar. Individual applications are also welcomed.

The seminars are organised as part of the Close the Pay Gap Campaign, which is a partnership between the Wales TUC, EHRC and Welsh Assembly Government.

Seminars will take place in all parts of Wales on the following dates:

North and Mid Wales (Llandudno) 21st January
South West Wales (Camarthen) 29th January
South East Wales (Cardiff) 5th February

Please use the attached forms below (one for employers and one for reps) for applications and return no later than 2 weeks prior to your seminar date.

Contact Derek Walker on dwalker@tuc.org.uk for more information

Equal Pay Seminar Application form - Welsh (word doc)

Equal Pay Seminar Application form - English (word doc)