Photo Gallery

The first ETFO Union School has been a great success.  Fifty-eight local leaders from 49 locals participated in an intensive three-part program to enhance their leadership skills, knowledge, and effectiveness. 

Elaine Bernard, Executive Director, Harvard Trade Union Program, provided a stimulating start to the first session in her keynote about why unions matter. She spoke about the need for unions to focus more on ‘lighting the fire’ within the membership and the importance of encouraging member involvement within the labour movement.

Participants completed a self-report inventory called EQ-I prior to the first session and through follow-up workshops developed understanding and practiced emotional and social competencies widely recognized as key to one’s success.  They experienced the realities of being an ETFO leader through in-depth discussion of case studies, a simulation of a typical day in the local office, and learned from current ETFO local leaders as they shared their stories about challenges, successes and ‘oops’ moments in an ETFO video.

These photos are from the first session which was held on March 5 – 7, 2007.