74th BC/Yukon-RC -Training and Education Committee

Report for the 2018 BC Yukon Regional Council

This year the committee has continued on the huge task of  reviewing how PIPSC does training and provide recommendations for a new training program.

The committee has continued focusing on the work Stewards and Members do to determine what their training needs are and have been working on  meeting those needs and what could be done better.  Currently we are focussing on the format, content, and structure of the education program and how we will be able to determine if it is working as intended.

As much of the work is still in process there is not a lot of detail that can be added here.  At stewards council we presented some of the work we have done on the steward program which was mostly met with positive feedback.

Much of the work of the regional training committees for this year will continue to be coming out of the work being done through the national committee.

Regionally training is going well, this year there has been a few more lunch and learns than in the past held in various work places. 

A new series of 3 lunch and learns have been developed on Pensions, Health and Dental benefits, and Disability Insurance that should be rolled out in the near future. 

A reminder on Lunch and Learns: All lunch and learns must be preapproved by the Chair of the Regional Training Committee if any funding is to be provided from the training budgets. 

Peter MacDougall,

Chair, BC Yukon Regional Training Committee

Member, National Training and Education Committee