Member Update: Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004

EDMONTON — Applications forms for AUPE’s 2005 Labour Education School are now available on line.

Applications for the fourth annual AUPE LES — which is scheduled to run from Feb. 27 to March 3, 2005, in Banff — must be completed by members and submitted to their Local Chair by Oct. 22, 2004.

The 2005 school will be expanded from previous years, with 10 courses offered and space for 255 students, said AUPE Union Representative, Education, Greg Maruca.

The aim of the program is to provide advanced training for committed union activists, Maruca said.

Instruction is provided in leadership, workplace health and safety, collective bargaining strategies, advanced stewards’ skills, education techniques, and lobbying government.

All students who want to participate in the school must demonstrate their commitment to AUPE by serving in important roles such as worksite activists and union stewards, or by having taken introductory courses from AUPE’s Education Section.

“The main objective of this school is to make our most committed members more effective union stewards and union leaders,” Maruca said.

Selection of participants for the 2005 school should be completed by Nov. 20 with applicants informed by the second week of December, he added.

Maruca said AUPE is monitoring the current labour dispute in Canada’s national parks and that appropriate
arrangements will be made if parks workers are still on strike when the conference is scheduled to take place.

Click here for a copy of the application form in PDF format.