Venue: Bunbury SHS, 10-44 Haig Crescent, Bunbury

These meetings are to ensure union members form every district has the opportunity to district level discussion, information and decision making on school, district and state level matters.

Every school /college is entitled to send a “district council delegate”. This member position is to be elected at the Feb/march annual general meeting for your school. This elected position entitles the district rep to formal decision making on the school memberships behalf and to be fully funded to attend the meeting (travel, accommodation, meals).

All members are welcome to attend as observers; however observer members do not have formal voting rights and will not be provided travel/accommodation/meal costs.

District union meetings are TUTA accredited thus teacher relief is supplied by DET where the meeting occurs in the school week.  (see section on TUTA)

Training Program:
The course aims to provide school & college union reps and union branch officers with the knowledge and skills to be effective union leaders in the workplace.

9:00 a.m. Module 1: General Agreement 2011

• Key components of the proposed agreement
• Key changes to General Agreement 2008
• DOE/SSTUWA Industrial agreement processes: Next Step
• Membership and Union Rep role and actions for the next stage of the agreement.

10.30 a.m. Module 2: Effectively dealing with your school issues

• Your district group will select the key school issue relevant to your members. You will be provided facts and knowledge behind the issue, skills and strategies to manage the issue with members and management.

(Please tick the most important 3 for you and your members on the attached registration form)

• Duty of Care for Teachers 
• Violent Students and Parents
• Public Sector Management 
• Housing Policy for Country Teachers
• Hours of Work – Open and close 
• Teacher Placement (IPS and other schools)
• Bullying at Work 
• Independent Public Schools
• Individual Education Plan 
• Parent Complaints
• Workload Advisory 
• Out of Hours Meeting (Trade off Days)
• Relief Teacher Organisation 
• Performance Management for Teachers

12.30pm Module 3: District Council Forum

• 1. School Review: What’s happening in your school?
• 2. Each school rep to share issues and member organisation for 2012
• 3. State Education and Public Sector Current Issues: Report and Review
• 4. National Education and Public Education Issues: Report and Review
• 5. General Issues for discussion and action

2012 is a vitally important year and all schools need to be represented.
Relief is provided by DET and All Union Members are entitled to 5 days Union Training per year.

Target Audience: SSTUWA Union Reps & Branch Officers – and other SSTUWA members
Facilitator:

SSTUWA Organisers –Ian Daw, Sally Dennis, Ross Fallen, Mario Schmidt & Margaret Henderson

Senior Officers – SSTUWA President Anne Gisborne, SSTUWA Senior Vice  President, David Kelly & General Secretary Tony Mullen

Please register your attendance by completing the attached registration form and email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it