Working Lives Research Institute
5.00pm - 7.00pm
London Metropolitan University
Room JS2-75
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
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Stuart Howard
was a trainer in shop stewards’ education programmes in North West England in the early 1980s on a project on unemployment and multinational companies. He worked as a researcher for the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) in London from 1989 before joining the ITF Civil Aviation Section in 1991. In 1994 he was made Secretary of the Section. He became ITF Assistant General Secretary in 2000. Stuart’s seminar will focus on the ITF's current strategy of building international union networks in key global corporations, and also in dealing with the issue of contracting out, with the specific example of Maersk. Maersk is a Danish business conglomerate and has activities in a variety of business sectors, primarily transportation (container shipping fleet) and energy (offshore oil exploration and transportation). It is the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world.
About the ITF
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions. Any independent trade union with members in the transport industry is eligible for membership of the ITF. 654 unions representing 4,500,000 transport workers in 148 countries are members of the ITF. It is one of several Global Federation Unions allied with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The ITF's headquarters is located in London and it has offices in Nairobi, Ouagadougou, Tokyo, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Amman, Moscow and Brussels.
These seminars are free, open to all and there is no need to register.
Please bring your work mates, friends and contacts to join us, to
listen to prominent labour movement academics and activists speak and
debate the latest in trade union developments at the WLRI. And if you
miss any of the seminars, you can always download the introductions
from our audio page.