The Organising Centre offers this qualification in several ways.

Primarily we offer it as part of the Organising Works (OW) Program.  OW is a traineeship program aiming to recruit people into unions and train them in the skills of organising and recruitment. The program also seeks to inject resources into the union movement to enable effective and sustained campaigns, utilising new and innovative approaches to organising. The trainee’s major role is to work at a grass-roots level recruiting and organising principally in non-union areas. The program has proven successful as a means of recruiting more women, young people and workers from diverse ethnic backgrounds into the union movement.

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The Organising Centre also delivers the Certificate IV in Unionism and Industrial Relations qualification to individual unions via face to face training sessions stretching over a number of weeks.  There is some flexibility in the curriculum which can be negotiated to meet the specific needs of unions.  Generally the course covers a curriculum that includes:

• Union values
• Union organising
• Negotiations and the bargaining process
• The Industrial Relations Framework in Australia
• Occupational Health and Safety
• IT skills for unionists
• Delegate development
• Unions and the wider society

If your union is interested in exploring this option then a written agreement will need to be negotiated between the Organising Centre and the union well in advance.  The precise duration and cost of the program would be part of this negotiation. 

To arrange a meeting with an Organising Centre Educator/Organiser to discuss delivery of the Certificate IV in Unionism and Industrial Relations qualification to your union contact the Organising Centre.