This winter the Fórsa Skills Academy have some fantastic training opportunities for members.

‘Lunch and Learn’ will return on the last Friday of the month as usual. The next session will look at the ins and outs of the BDS campaign and how members can best take part. Meanwhile applications have opened for Level 2 Workplace Representatives’ Training taking place in Cork in January. A crucial course for workplace reps who want to make a positive impact on their workplace.

Lunch & Learn - Using the International Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) campaign as a tool of solidarity – Online - 29th November 

Live Lunch and Learn is Fórsa’s monthly offering to members, covering a wide variety of topics of interest to members.

This month’s topic will be using the International Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) campaign as a tool of solidarity. 

The contributors will explain the aims and reasoning behind the BDS movement, as well as informing and educating members on the role they can play as part of Fórsa’s policy concerning BDS and the struggle for peace and justice in the region.

BDS is a movement that relies on the support and engagement of individual people. Members will be glad to hear this session will lay out how they can best take part. There will also be an opportunity for members to hear what actions they can take themselves to campaign for the enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill.

This session will take place on Friday 298th November, from 1pm-2pm. Registration is open and available here.

To learn more about BDS visit here.

Level 2 Workplace Representatives’ Training - Cork - 8th and 9th January

Applications for Level 2 Workplace Representatives’ Training opened this week. This training is key for workplace reps looking to be effective in their role. The course teaches skills and knowledge crucial to workplace organising, such as mapping the workplace, individual representation for members, equality & diversity, health and safety, and more.

The course is in three parts over four days. All parts must be completed in order to progress on to further training. 

To be eligible for this training applicants must 

• Be a workplace representative.
• Have completed Level 1 Workplace Representatives’ Training
• Confirmed their application with their branch chairperson and Fórsa assigned official

For Workplace Representatives’ Training the registration link is sent the Branch Chairpersons, Secretaries and Training Officers. Members interested in this training should contact their Branch Officers directly.

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