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Knowing your entitlements and understanding the Award
(2 day course)
Did the Federal election change my award or agreement entitlements?
How will collective bargaining work in the future?
What are my entitlements right now in 2008?
This course is a must for all nurses. It’s about knowing how to determine your entitlements and how to find that information quickly. Don’t rely on the tearoom!
Come along and learn where to find the correct documents, how to read them and how to calculate your entitlements. | 27-28 August
02-03 September | Brisbane
Roma |
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Being a QNU Contact in the workplace
Being a QNU Contact is the first step to getting more involved in the QNU.
This course looks at the role of the QNU Contact, the structure of the Union, how the QNU functions and how QNU members make democratic decisions.
We will cover:
» Who is the QNU?
» What does the QNU do?
» How does the QNU work?
» QNU decision making.
» QNU communication networks.
» What is happening in my workplace? | 05 September
28 October | Brisbane
Bundaberg |
Handling grievances in the workplace
Activists often assist members to work through individual or collective issues in the workplace.
This course aims to:
» Clearly articulate the role of the activist in dealing with issues.
» Define various processes available to members.
» Identify ways to collectively advance issues.
» Give activists the environment to check, challenge and test our ideas about the handling of issues in the workplace. | 16 September
21 October | Brisbane
Townsville |
QH Nurses – do you have a workload issue?
The course focuses on the role of the activist and members in addressing nursing workloads via the Business Planning Framework-Nursing Resources (BPF-NR) and EB6.
We explore how to get the BPF-NR implemented correctly in your work unit as well as how to deal with problems regarding ineffective implementation of the BPF-NR.
We will look at:
» Examining our role in monitoring workloads through the implementation of the Business Planning Framework.
» Utilising the Business Planning Framework - and understanding the importance of the grievance mechanism.
» Calculating the minimum number of available beds.
» Defining nurse to patient ratios from established hours per patient day.
» Bed closure in the context of integrated bed management arrangements.
» Identifying the activist’s role in progressing Business Planning Framework issues at the Nursing Consultative Forum.
» Creating strategies to deal with barriers to effective BPF-NR implementation. | 17 September
11 November
26 November | Brisbane
Toowoomba
Cairns |
Planning the Campaign –
EB7 in the Public Sector
The course is open to QNU Activists as we prepare to build capacity and strengthen our position for the next round of collective bargaining.
We will examine the strategic and practical issues in making a state wide campaign successful by:
» Examining our internal strengths and building on these.
» Outlining our log of claims, items of interest and their origins.
» Enhancing local communication and lobbying skills.
» Exploring bargaining positions—interest based bargaining and positional bargaining.
» Detailing what’s required to achieve positive outcomes.
» Planning for success.
This is essential planning for QH activists, enrol as a group from your worksite to maximise our local planning outcomes. | 18 September
07 October
09 October
10 October
22 October
29 October
31 October
12 November
27 November | Brisbane
Mackay
Rockhampton
Brisbane
Townsville
Bundaberg
Brisbane
Toowoomba
Cairns |
Workplace Representatives 1
(3 day course)
This program aims to assist activists/potential activists to develop the skills required to organise their workplace.
In the course we:
» Analyse your workplace.
» Look at how to grow the Union.
» Understand the grievance procedure and apply it.
» Problem solve collective issues.
» Prepare/present a negotiation based on the resolution of your issues.
» Devise plans for organising your workplace. | 23-24-25 September
18-19-20 November | Darwin
Brisbane |
Private Hospitals Bargaining 1 – what you need to know!
The course is a must for all nurses employed in private hospitals.
We will focus on the next bargaining rounds in the sector and examine how to create a strong and effective basis for campaigning.
In this course we will examine:
» The landscape and issues facing nurses working in private hospitals.
» Our current strengths and how to build them further.
» Methods of communicating with members.
» Ways to achieve greater improvements through bargaining.
» The intersection of private and public sector campaign issues.
We welcome all nurses who work in private hospitals to attend this really important one day course. | 14 October | Brisbane |
The QNU Aged Care Campaign
All nurses in aged care are invited to attend this one day course.
Promoting and advancing aged care issues is a QNU campaign priority.
To achieve our campaign outcomes we must have active member involvement along with a great strategic plan!
Come along and get involved in making aged care a better place to work and to keep nursing in aged care!
We will cover:
» What are our collective aims?
» What do we have to do to achieve them?
» What can I do?
» The way forward?
Be a part of a positive future in aged care! | 15 October
23 October
13 November | Brisbane
Townsville
Toowoomba |
QH Activists – developing a positive workplace culture
This course is about designing strategies to organise members to address unhealthy workplaces.
We will look at the processes, QH post the Bundaberg Inquiry/Forster Review have put in place to improve professional relationships at work.
These tools if used will assist members to finally be able to deal with unacceptable workplace issues as well as designing responsive approaches to quickly stop new problems becoming embedded in the workplace.
In this course we will:
» Examine the various mechanisms which can be used to pursue matters.
» Design collective strategies to deal with workplace issues.
» Address the perceived barriers to improving the culture at work and how we move beyond them. | 16 October | Brisbane |
Creating a safe workplace (WH&S)
Nursing unions throughout Australia have made significant inroads into improving the health and safety of their members through campaigns such as the Zero tolerance to Violence and No Lift policies etc.
This course aims to provide nurses with practical advice and tools to create a safe workplace culture by:
» Explaining the role of the WH&S Representative.
» Providing an overview of your employer’s obligations to workplace health and safety.
» Creating knowledge of the risk assessment process.
» Consideration of the major WH&S concerns facing nurses today.
» Developing a plan to organise around a WH&S issue. | 25 November | Cairns |
QNU Branch Development 1 – establishing, developing and growing our voice (2 day course)
This course is aimed at helping branch officials develop strategies to encourage a vital, energetic branch based on member activism in the workplace.
Content includes:
What is an organising Union?
» Techniques for maintaining a healthy branch.
» Effective meetings.
» Problem solving at the workplace.
» Strategic planning. | 02-03 December | Brisbane |
QNU Branch Development 2 – establishing, developing and growing our voice (1 day course)
This course is open to any member who has completed the Branch Development 1 course.
The course content will include:
» The role of the branch in State policy direction.
» Preparing an Annual Conference agenda item.
» Speaking confidently at Annual Conference. | 04 December | Brisbane |
Private Hospitals Bargaining 2 –
what you need to know!
Please note – nurses need to have attended the Private Hospitals Bargaining 1 course prior to attending this course.
Nurses will build on the ideas and issues raised in the first program to look at how to actively advance bargaining at their facilities.
We will cover:
» Member involvement.
» Campaign planning.
» Current and emerging issues in the private hospitals sector.
» Achieving successful bargaining outcomes.
Private hospital nurses have a great opportunity to create positive change and improvements in their workplaces through the collective bargaining process. Come along to help make that happen at your workplace. | 05 December | Brisbane |
