| Date and Time | Workshop | Description | Zoom link |
| Monday 21st Feb 12-1pm | Security guards on co-designing skills for work Facilitated by: The Southern Initiative – Uptempo | This workshop is an interactive talanoa to share insights and learnings from our innovation work with Pasifika Security workers in the last year. Our work alongside E Tu is in partnership with Pasifika security workers and their ‘aiga (families) to come up with solutions and practices for progression in the security industry and ultimately growing generational wealth for our community. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/84369847655?from=addon |
| Monday 21st Feb 2-3pm | Creating policies that guarantee workers access to training Facilitated by: Rachel Mackintosh, E tū | All work is skilled work, and all workers have the right to have their skills developed and recognised. Workers’ training is a vital element of decent work – all workers should have access to relevant and rewarding education and training. This workshop will explore several opportunities to ensure that workers have access to training. The Future of Work, the Reform of Vocational Education, and the Government’s various Industry Transformation Plans all provide part of the answer. Come along to learn what part you may be able to play in advancing workers’ participation in industry training. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/84369847655?from=addon |
| Monday 21st Feb 5-6pm | Activating grassroots leaders for safe workplaces Facilitated by: Tom Carlyle, E tū | The Health and Safety at Work Act is one of the most powerful pieces of legislation that we can engage with to increase worker power, and make sure your voice is part of the conversation. This workshop will focus on how to organise around the purpose and provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act: Looking through the lens of the industrial relationship, and the collective power of unions, to bring employers to the table. And hold them truly accountable for the health, safety, and welfare of our essential workers. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/84433194808?from=addon |
| Monday 21st Feb 6-7pm | Organising the voice of civil society Facilitated by: Marlon Drake, Te Ohu Whakawhanaunga | An introduction to Te Ohu Whakawhanaunga and the project to build Aotearoa’s first Citizens Alliance and organise the voices of civil society: community organisations, unions, and faith organisations. Come along to learn about community organising, our blossoming movement, and most importantly how you can get involved! | https://iafnw.zoom.us/j/86506738643 |
| Tuesday 22nd Feb 12-1pm | Building momentum for Fair Pay Agreements Facilitated by: Sarah Thompson, E tū | In this workshop you will hear from E tū members about why we need FPAs, and the work they’ve done over the past 3 years to get us to where we are now with the FPA Bill imminent. Together we’ll then discuss the messaging and outreach needed to propel the campaign forward. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/86428509141?from=addon |
| Tuesday 22nd Feb 5-6pm | Getting to ratification: Convention 190 on Harassment and Violence Facilitated by: Carol Beaumont, ITUC | ILO Convention C190 ‘Violence and Harassment Convention 2019 – Convention concerning the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work’ is the most recent international labour standard. It explicitly acknowledges that violence and harassment in the world of work is a human rights abuse and is unacceptable and incompatible with decent work. In this workshop we will consider the content of C 190, how we can use it to progress change here by identifying the gaps between what is available domestically and what is covered in the Convention and how we can improve domestic provisions and ratify Convention 190 so that it provides a clear guidance on best practice in dealing with and seeking to eliminate this abuse. We will specifically outline the campaign that has been developed by the Coalition for a Safe World of Work and how we can further strengthen the campaign. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/82180557457?from=addon |
| Wednesday 23rd Feb 12-1pm | Organising for a Just Transition: Taranaki to Murihiku Facilitated by: Jen Natoli and Anna Huffstutler, E tū | Join us for an interactive session about our experiences across Aotearoa. We’ll be using a framework to guide our discussions that can be used by participants to evaluate and think about changes happening in their work, community and lives to ensure the changes are just. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/82758508388?from=addon |
| Wednesday 23rd Feb 2-3pm | Campaigning for better laws Facilitated by: Anaru Ryall, E tū | Anaru Ryall is an experienced political and community campaign organiser who works for E tū. He was the former Field Campaign Director for the Labour Party before moving to E tū where he has been leading political campaigns. His workshop will cover the explore understanding the NZ political system, how to effectively lobby politicians, and how to build and grow a community organising campaign to win. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/82758508388?from=addon |
| Wednesday 23rd Feb 6-7pm | Re-imagining diversity in workplaces Facilitated by: Jo Vicente-Angeles, Birgit Grafarend-Watungwa and Grant Williams, Te Ohu Whakawhanaunga | ‘Re-imagining Diversity in workplaces’ will be co-hosted by Te Ohu Whakawhanaunga together with its Sponsoring organisations. Ibrahim Omer MP will be sharing his journey as a migrant navigating diversity in workplaces. Juliana Carvalho will be sharing the support system in her workplace as a person with disabilities. Facilitated break-out group sessions, role play and interactive discussions will be part of the process. We would like to focus our discussion on how best we can work together to make diversity & inclusion in workplaces in Aotearoa more meaningful and radiates to communities and organisations | https://iafnw.zoom.us/j/85068662131 |
| Wednesday 23rd Feb 7.30-8.30pm | Whakamana kaiako, whakamana tamaiti: how ECE teachers are fixing the race to the bottom in early childhood education, and why an FPA can help. Facilitated by: Stephanie Mills, NZEI | Early childhood teachers and NZEI Te Riu Roa campaign and growth team staff will share their ongoing journey to winning pay parity and growing power in the largely privatised ECE sector. Teachers will talk about why quality early learning is an equity issue for tamariki and why decent pay and working conditions are critically important to supporting quality teaching. We will also talk about our strategy of engaging potential members in experiences of collective action online and in real life as a precursor to unionising, and why Fair Pay Agreements offer an opportunity to help deliver common core conditions across the education sector. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/88173384743?from=addon |
| Thursday 24th Feb 12-1pm | Roundtable Discussion: Modern Slavery – Where to from here? Facilitated by: Felicity Lamm and Swati Nagar, AUT University | The aim of the roundtable discussion is to invite participants to discuss the following: 1) prioritising the key issues in eradicating modern slavery; 2) exploring collaborative opportunities; and, 3) developing an agenda and strategy in order to move forward. Aim: The aim of the roundtable discussion is to invite participants to discuss the following: 1) prioritizing the key issues in eradicating modern slavery; 2) exploring research opportunities; and, 3) developing a research agenda and strategy in order to move forward. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/86874888977?from=addon |
| Thursday 24th Feb 2-3pm | A better future for workers in community care Facilitated by: Kirsty McCully and Ingrid Beckers, E tū | Hear from care workers about their vision for a better care and support sector, the challenges of the current model, and progress workers have made in achieving positive change. You’ll also have a chance to discuss with care workers what you think a decent care sector in Aotearoa should deliver. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/86874888977?from=addon |
| Thursday 24th Feb 5-6pm | Building power through community alliances Facilitated by: Teisa Unga, Living Wage Movement | Fighting a system needs more than just submissions and meetings. It needs people power. Our voices are louder when we come together and work together for the greater good. In this workshop, you will learn how the Living wage successfully built a campaign through people power to win 4 Living Wage accredited City Councils and how to implement that into your campaign. | https://etu.zoom.us/j/86874888977?from=addon |
