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Dear all Below and attached are details of the next Manchester Industrial Relations Society meeting - all are welcome, hope to see some of you there Stephen Mustchin Apologies if you see this more than once. Union organising in the hospitality sector and the 2018 strikes at TGI Fridays Anthony Curley Organiser, Unite North West region 6.00 pm 6 December 2018 , Lecture Theatre LT34, Ground Floor, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, All Saints Campus, Oxford Road, (near Oxford Road Railway Station) The hospitality sector has long been considered a problematic area of employment from the perspective of trade union organisation, due to relatively weak traditions of collective representation, high levels of staff turnover, precarious work and anti-union employers. Despite this context, in 2018 employees working in TGI Fridays staged a series of strikes, including the walkouts on 4 October involving coordinated strike action alongside McDonalds, Wetherspoons, Deliveroo and UberEats workers, which were supported by the Unite and BFAWU trade unions. Anthony Curley is a union organiser for the Unite trade union in the North West of England with a particular focus on the service industries, and the talk will cover the TGI Fridays campaign along with wider issues relating to union organising in the hospitality industries. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH&A=1