Core Essentials Education & Training Full training - Reach out to your steward for the password

Core Essentials Education & Training for Partner Unions
Dr. Gary Namie, Director
Workplace Bullying Institute

FOR MEMBERS:

Welcome to the Core Essentials awareness training. These seven hours of focused instruction, broken into eight modules, are the distillation of nearly a quarter-century of research and countless hours of study into the topic of workplace bullying, also referred to as workplace abuse.

In these modules, you’ll learn what workplace bullying is, what it isn’t, what to do if you’re experiencing abuse, what not to do, what it’ll do to your emotional health and your physical health, why witnesses don’t come to the rescue, why family and friends struggle to understand, how the phenomenon impacts company morale, the organization’s pocketbook, and much, much more.

By the time you finish all eight modules, you will be much more equipped to identify workplace bullying if it happens to you or a colleague, and you’ll be far more likely to stem off the predictable traumatic effects of long-term workplace abuse from happening.

In addition, this material will have great bearing the next time any of you experience or witness such abuse from one of your fellow members to another.

To your awareness,
Gary Namie, PhD
Director, Workplace Bullying Institute

workplacebullying.org

FOR STEWARDS AND VOLUNTEERS FROM EACH LOCAL

Welcome to the Union Team Training. This ninth video is 88 minutes of Union-specific instruction is designed to transform groups of volunteers in every local and equip them for action.

As in-house advocates, they’ll be be ready to triage the next member in need, validate them and their experience, direct them to mental health professionals, represent them in one-on-one meetings with their toxic supervisor or colleague (or fellow union member), help with informal conflict resolution, and much more.

Once team members for locals are identified, they need to schedule a time-frame in which to view this module, and a time shortly after to meet together to assign roles and discuss goals for the group.

This module provides more than advocacy. It ensures that this effort to address workplace bullying head-on is sustained well beyond whatever shape the groups take initially.

*Make sure to recruit as many willing and committed fire-breathers for this as you can. You’ll need something between 5-15 people, depending on the size of your local, to tend to the needs of all.