UIN: organising conference
sorry for cross postings
Dear all
Sorry for the last message on this topic which had the wrong
email - it has now been corrected.
We now have 60 people registered for this event and while
registrations are still we need to finalise details - - so
please do register as soon as you can if you would like to come along
(if you have not already done so) - we need to be able to estimate
numbers for lunch etc.
A Union Ideas Network one-day
conference
Building stronger unions -
organising in the context
of global capital
17 May 2007: 10-30-4.30
London Metropolitan University
Calcutta House,
Room CS501, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT
The challenges for unions organising in the context
of global capital
* Frances O'Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary
Global campaigns: organising along supply chains
* Doug Miller, International Textile, Garment and Leather
Workers' Federation
* Paula Hamilton, International Transport Workers Federation
Organising in Europe
* Professor Jeremy Waddington, Manchester University
* Bronwyn McKenna, Director of Organising and Membership, Unison
Organising amongst low paid and subcontracted workers
* Professor Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London,
* Martin Smith, National Organiser, GMB
Union
Futures: a new TUC pamphlet will be launched: introduced by
Shelia Cohen and Gary Daniels
Union Ideas Network (UIN) is the online website bringing together
trade unionists and academics to exchange ideas and information to
stimulate debate and support action.
Find out more by registering at www.uin.org.uk
--
Dr Jane Holgate
Working Lives Research
Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street, London EC3N
2EY
Tel (w) + 44 (0) 20 7320 3029
Tel (h) 020 8802 0373.
Tel (m) 07960 798399
www.workinglives.org/staff_jh.html
