Rights and Wrongs: Workers’ Rights
This updated and very popular workshop helps students to:
- Identify their basic rights and responsibilities in the workplace;
- Take action in situations where workplace law is broken – what to do, where to go, who to call, when to take action;
- Analyze differences between union & non-union workplaces.
Download abridged version of: Rights and Wrongs: Workers’ Rights 
Safety Smarts on the Job
This important, interactive workshop will help students to:
- Identify their 3 main workplace health & safety rights;
- Identify their health & safety responsibilities – and the employers’;
- Recognize hazards in different kinds of workplaces;
- Practise ways to handle Health & Safety problems effectively.
Download abridged version of: Safety Smarts on the Job
Globalization
Through case studies, activities and videos, students will learn to
- Trace the evolution of “free trade”;
- Determine the effects (local and global) of free trade;
- Analyze the resistance and alternatives to globalization;
- Identify further resources on globalization
Download abridged version of: Globalization
The ABC’s of Unions
In a lively, interactive workshop, supported by videos and quizzes, students will learn to:
- Identify what unions do – their main functions;
- Explain the structure of unions;
- Evaluate the accomplishments & contributions of the union movement, for their members and for broader Canadian society;
- Analyze sample workplace problems that unions help to solve.
Download abridged version of: The ABCs of Unions
Women, Work and Power
Through discussions, activities and dynamic videos, students will learn to
- Analyze women’s place in the Canadian labour market and union movement;
- Trace the history of women’s workplace gains – and challenges remaining;
- Situate Canadian women’s work issues with those of women globally.
Breaking Barriers: Linking Struggles
Through discussions and activities after viewing the exciting new DVD from the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, students will be able to:
- Analyze the role of workers of colour and immigrants in the Canadian struggle to gain equality;
- Discuss the role of the union movement in the Canadian labour market;
- Compare the challenges faced by workers of colour in earlier decades to current ones.
Breaking Barriers: Linking Struggles is also available in college libraries
For
further
info about Workshops for Students,
please contact:
- JP Hornick, School of Labour (416) 415-5000 ext. 3531
- Kathryn Payne, School of Labour (416) 415-5000 ext. 3414
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