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EDUCATION AND TRAINING<br />
Convention Education Sessions<br />
Focus on Growth Equals<br />
Strength for Local Leaders<br />
Education sessions held on Saturday, July 15 at the 2017 Quadrennial Convention focused on Growth<br />
Equals Strength by growing craft and leadership skills to strengthen every local union. Building a<br />
program for craft and leadership training in a local union is not a series of one time classes – but a<br />
process of creating a culture of training over the long haul. It requires planning and preparation.<br />
For an <strong>IATSE</strong> local union to negoti-<br />
These workshops offered easy guid-<br />
(such as lawyers, accountants, actuaries),<br />
ate and administer contracts, organize<br />
ance on how to improve existing local<br />
and how to supervise staff. Supporting<br />
workers, engage members, and fulfill its<br />
programs or begin new local programs<br />
materials for both workshops, including<br />
role as a potent organization in the mod-<br />
which educate rank and file workers,<br />
a user-friendly booklet of resources and<br />
ern <strong>IATSE</strong>, each local union should have<br />
train new officers and trustees, and con-<br />
best practices, templates, and checklists<br />
a plan in place to continually educate<br />
its members and leaders at every level.<br />
Additionally, members want and need<br />
education to continue to be the best<br />
and most skilled workers at their crafts.<br />
tinue to educate veteran officers. Some<br />
of the topics covered included: how to<br />
conduct new member orientations, plan<br />
steward training, improve digital literacy,<br />
know when to use professionals<br />
to use at your local union when putting<br />
training programs in place, regardless of<br />
the size or type of local, can be found at<br />
www.iatse.net/convention2017education.<br />
DEVELOPING A CRAFT<br />
SKILLS AND SAFETY<br />
TRAINING PROGRAM<br />
The most important first step is to<br />
Feedback<br />
figure out what your members need to<br />
know. How do you find out? The members<br />
and employers can probably tell you<br />
Time<br />
Money<br />
themselves. There are many resources to<br />
help you with funding, provide classes,<br />
Participants<br />
or share curriculum. Figure out what<br />
your members need - that is the first step<br />
WWW.<strong>IATSE</strong>.NET<br />
Instructors<br />
A Culture that<br />
Values Training<br />
toward building a program!<br />
Building a safety culture for all job<br />
sites is also a great on-ramp to more<br />
training. Members want to work safely.<br />
Education is the key to making sure they<br />
can go home at the end of the call to<br />
their families and friends. For Craft and<br />
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