Event Profile

Leadership Skills: Supervising Union Employees

Date(s):
June 10 — 11, 2025
Venue:
DoubleTree Seattle Airport
Description:

Who Should Attend:

Operations directors, managers, line superintendents, labor relations professionals, and human resource managers who supervise union employees and deal with stewards and officers of the union.

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Overview:

The MARC Union-Labor Relations program increases the skills and confidence of frontline supervisors to serve as management's frontline representatives in dealing with employees, stewards, and officers of the union. Additionally, top-level managers are trained to delegate and support frontline supervisors. The MARC program provides a well-organized format to produce uniform interpretation of the contract, rules, and policies, which reduces inconsistencies in dealing with employees. It also ensures that union procedures with proper documentation are consistently followed in handling grievances, providing job performance counseling, administering disciplinary action, and making job promotion decisions. This two-day course provides supervisors and managers with a set of tools that develops fair and consistent treatment of all employees.

This is an optional course in the Leadership Skills Certificate Program. For more information about this and other certificate programs, please see the NWPPA Certificate Program Brochure.

Note: Please plan to leave this course with a binder of course material that measures approximately 12" x12" and is 3" thick.

Instructor:

Jim Williams, MARC

Schedule:

Registration will begin at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on day one, and the class will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days. Lunch and refreshments will be provided both days.

Location:

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 International Blvd.
Seattle, WA 98188
(800) 222-8733
Room Rate: $159

Please book your room as soon as possible, but no later than June 11, 2024.

Fees:

Utility Member Early Bird (ends 5/10/2025): $1,550
Utility Member Standard: $1,625

Associate Member Early Bird (ends 5/10/2025): $2,325
Associate Member Standard: $2,400

Non-Member Early Bird (ends 5/10/2025): $3,100
Non-Member Standard: $3,175

Canadian utility members, please contact registration@nwppa.org for pricing and to register.
 
Note: Organizations that register a group of employees will receive every fifth registration for free. For example, if you register five employees, you only pay for four; register 10 employees, you only pay for eight; and so on. There is nothing additional you need to do to receive this discount. 

Cancellation Policy:

For webinars, virtual classes, and section meetings: cancellations at least five days prior to the event will receive a full refund; within 1-4 days or no show, the charge will be 100% of the registration fee.

For in-person events: cancellations at least 30 days prior to the event will receive a full refund; within 15-29 days there will be a $100 fee; and within 1-14 days or no show, the charge will be 100% of the registration fee.
 
When possible, please send a substitute instead of canceling; NWPPA does not charge a fee for substitutions. To request a refund, please contact us at registration@nwppa.org or (360) 254-0109.

Continuing Hours:

This course qualifies for 12 continuing hours. Certificates are issued upon full completion of the course.

For More Information:

To find out more about this event, or to learn about other events, view the Training and Event Catalog.