Unions
Summary: Unions have a role in protecting psychological health and safety, promoting equity and ensuring workers have a collective voice in workplace decisions. These free resources can help.
For leaders
Union representatives can be instrumental in cultivating a psychologically healthy workplace, not only by supporting successful accommodations and return-to-work initiatives but also by fostering effective collaboration with management to enhance the collective bargaining process and organizational initiatives.
Commitment, leadership and participation for psychological health and safety provides a strategy for organizations to document and communicate psychological health and safety approaches, emphasizing engagement with key stakeholders, including union representatives, to ensure successful implementation.
Unions articles and resources
The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation:
Strategies for union reps to help workers with mental or physical disabilities. Support from union representatives can be critical for ongoing success on the job.
Effective collaboration strategies for collective bargaining, accommodation and organizational initiatives.
Make sure your approach to psychological health and safety is documented and communicated throughout your organization. Specific messages for leaders, unions, middle management and employees are suggested.
A series of questions to help identify psychosocial hazards and manage the potential for risk. Consider issues related to labour law, employment standards, human rights and more.
Use these questions and strategies to help health and safety committees integrate psychological health and safety into their processes.
Tips and strategies that can help you adjust to routines, re-establish social connections and reorient to job tasks. Asking for help to return to work successfully benefits both you and your employer.