Occupational health and safety is important to HSA members. Safety stewards and representatives on joint OH&S committees play a vital role in promoting a safe work environment and preventing injuries.
HSA is offering the following OH&S workshops in the New Westminster office. These workshops are participatory and discussion-oriented, providing an opportunity to examine examples from your own workplace.
The Community Social Services Labour Adjustment and Education Fund Committee is calling for new applications from members working in the community social services sector.
Applicants must:
Educational Objective:
To explore the issue of social justice and some of the efforts HSA and its partners are undertaking to bring about just conditions both locally and globally.
Target Audience:
All members interested in social justice.
Workshop Goals:
Stewards play a vital role in the union. Particularly important is the steward's role in contract interpretation, organizing and the grievance procedure. In recognition of the need for educating new stewards in these areas, HSA is offering four 3-day Basic Steward Training workshops at the HSA office as follows:
Dates:
January 11–13, 2016
January 25-27, 2016
February 22–24, 2016
April 11-13, 2016
Location: HSA Office, 180 East Columbia Street, New Westminster
HSA is offering scholarships and bursaries to all members and their children. Ten scholarships will be awarded for full-time studies, twenty bursaries for full-time studies and four bursaries for part-time studies. Two aboriginal bursaries will be awarded to aboriginal students in BC.
BY VAL AVERY, PRESIDENT, HSA
For most members, their first contact with our union is through a steward.
Registration Information:
Stewards may register by logging into My Events Registration. Workshops will be listed under Steward Education events.
HSA provides members and their children with several scholarships and bursaries for education. Scholarships are adjudicated by the union's education commiittee. Applications for 2016 will be accepted beginning in January 2016. Check for details at http://www.hsabc.org/member-benefits/scholarships-and-bursaries
Are you a woman considering running for elected office, or working in a key position in a future election campaign? If so, then the Canadian Women Voters Congress Women’s Campaign School is for you.
Dates: June 12 to June 14, 2015
Location: Victoria, BC
June 23-27, 2015
Reed College campus, Portland, Oregon
Fighting for a Fair Future
The Summer Institute for Union Women (SIUW) is a 4-day residential school designed to empower women as leaders in the labour movement through participatory education and community-building. See the University of Oregon website for more details.
