Professional Education

Ready to make a difference in your union, organization or company? Earn your certificate and build essential leadership, negotiation and communication skills with convenient and flexible online courses. This certificate program is an affordable and rapid-results educational experience that provides skills essential to success in your organization.

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Register for Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program - Online

This tools-building workshop emphasizes the rights of stewards/committee persons in resolving disputes in the workplace. Participants will learn how to protect the grievance process, the equality principle, and how to simplify grievance writing. This online workshop is part of the four-course Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program.

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Register for Steward Training: Problem-Solving in the Workplace (online)

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program, this course examines the principles of contract bargaining including bargaining environments and standards used in negotiations. Students will learn to prepare bargaining demands, cost economic items, draft non-economic language, negotiate economic and non-economic issues, and resolve a bargaining impasse.

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Register for Introduction to Collective Bargaining

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program which allows busy union activists to take college credit courses regardless of their location or work schedules, this 11-week course is designed to acquaint labor relations professionals, union members, and union stewards with a basic understanding of public sector labor relations.

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Register for Labor Relations in the Public Sector

 This course, part of the Online Labor Studies Program, examines the history of workers' efforts to form unions. Discussions focus on how unions can "unionize" their members so they become participants in the mobilization of other workers to support the values of the labor movement.

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Register for Building Effective Unions: Motivating and Organizing Union

Learn how U.S. Labor Law impacts employer, union and employee authority, rights and responsibilities at the bargaining table and in day-to-day operations in the private and public sector in this interactive practice-based workshop.

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Register for Labor Law

Learn how Collective Bargaining Agreements are written, interpreted and enforced in this interactive, practice-based workshop.

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Register for Contract Interpretation

It is critical that managers at unions and social justice organizations receive training to become effective leaders and make the best use of limited resources. Participants learn techniques for helping their staff succeed and respond appropriately to common issues while honoring the values of the labor movement.

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Register for Managing with Labor's Values - Parts 1 & 2

This workshop provides a good foundation for supervising and managing with labor’s values. This workshop focuses on understanding different behavioral styles at work and how to adapt when conflicting styles cause misunderstandings, unproductive efforts, and impede progress on reaching goals.

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Register for Managing With Labor's Values - Part 1: Helping Your Staff to Succeed

Through role-plays and simulations, gain insight into your own negotiation biases, weaknesses and strengths, and build negotiation confidence and competency. Participants learn how to plan a negotiation strategy and practice communication skills necessary to showcase underlying needs and interests. Positional and interest-based negotiation skills are explored.

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Register for Negotiation Skills for the Workplace

Examine the responsibilities and proactive initiatives that guide ER professionals. Learn techniques for conducting effective conversations, making ER decisions and managing performance issues. Practice coaching, counseling, progressive discipline strategies, working styles and communication skills, including effective ways to phrase language. Leave with extensive tools and guides to apply at work.

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Register for Advanced Effective Employee Relations

As tensions rise around immigration, gender, race, and politics, our workplaces grow more divided. This two-day training gives unions and worker organizations tools to address bullying, harassment, and discrimination and lead cultural change that builds solidarity.

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Learn more about Prevention of Harassment, Discrimination, and Bullying for Unions and Worker Organizations

This introductory-level workshop is designed to develop the skills of union negotiators who do not have extensive experience in advancing a collective bargaining strategy. This online workshop is part of the four-course Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program, participants do not have to be online at a specific time.

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Register for Negotiation Skills (online)

Learn a step-by-step process on preparing for bargaining including aligning organizational, labor and bargaining strategies and developing management and union goals, and preparing for the bargaining table. An in-class project includes preparing and delivering a presentation to management to obtain bargaining mandate.

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Register for Preparation for Collective Bargaining

Obtain your Basic Labor Leadership Skills Certificate with this intensive virtual boot camp that provides the specific skills essential to success in your organization. Four full exhilarating days of interactive and immersive classroom training topics including stewards, basic negotiations, costing out a contract, and effective communication.

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Register for Labor Leadership Skills Certificate Program - Boot Camp