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Invitation to London Ogranisers’ Network meeting Workers centres & low wage workers: organising at the bottom of the labour market Thursday 16 July 2009, 6pm TUC Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Speaker: Janice Fine - Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Senior Fellow for Organizing and Policy at the Center for Community Change (CCC). Her book Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream was released in January of 2006 by Cornell University Press and the Economic Policy Institute. From 1981-83 Janice was the President of United States Student Association. During the 1980s, she worked for the AFL-CIO in Broward County, Florida, Massachusetts Fair Share in Boston. In the early 1990s, she worked for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Building and Construction Trades Council. For ten years, until 2003, Janice was the Organizing Director at Northeast Action, the hub of a regional network of state wide progressive coalitions, unions and citizen action groups. LON is an open, inclusive network for those committed to an organising approach to building the trade union movement. It is open to both full time union employees and union members regardless of union or political affiliation. Can you please let us know if you intend to come along – it just helps in terms of ordering refreshments (beer and wine!) [log in to unmask] Please display the attached poster on union notice boards -- -- 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 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.workinglives.org/staff/current-staff/jane-holgate.cfm