Professional Education

Although it’s temporary, Section 301 can be used to continue benefits long enough for an individual to acquire additional work skills and find alternatives to benefits, such as employment and other ways to get medical insurance.

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Register for Section 301: Sometimes It’s Not Even Over When It’s Over

The course covers Social Security disability benefits and work incentives, and how those benefits interact with Medicaid, Medicare, and other government benefits programs. The course also discusses the best practices of a benefits planner.

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Learn more about Audit Only

The course covers Social Security disability benefits and work incentives, and how those benefits interact with Medicaid, Medicare, and other government benefits programs. The course also discusses the best practices of a benefits planner.

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Learn more about WIP-C - Full Credentialing

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

The contract lies at the center of day-to-day union practice. How can union leaders and rank and file members ensure that the contract is honored and not circumvented? Students in this online for-credit course will learn how to resolve problems that are contract-based by effectively utilizing grievance procedures.

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Register for Contract Administration

Part of the Online Labor Studies Program this course surveys the major areas of the law as it applies to workers and unions in the private sector. Students will concentrate on major provisions of the NLRB, examining how NLRB and Federal Courts have interpreted the national labor laws.

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Register for Private Sector Labor Law

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

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

Attendees will learn ethical strategies for managing competing interests to maximize youth outcomes and facilitate meaningful and beneficial familial involvement. CRC Ethics and CVE credits have been approved for this training.

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Register for Leveraging Families to Support Successful and Ethical Youth Services: Enlisting Partners to Facilitate Employment Outcomes

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

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)