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Last updated: 03/06/09

WLRI Trade Union Seminar Series 2009

The WLRI Trade Union Seminar Series 2009 follows last year's successful programme of seminars. We bring together academics and trade unionists to discuss some of the more important issues facing the labour movement today (see 2008 archive). They are held at the end of the working day:

5.00pm - 7.00pm

London Metropolitan University
Room JS2-75
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY

See our contacts page for map.

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.

 

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‘Across the Great Divide’ - The Globalisation of Call Centres and Trade Union Organisation in India and the UK

• Phil Taylor, University of Strathclyde

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'Trade Union Mergers; rationalisation or opportunism?'

• Roger Undy (Emeritus Reader and Emeritus Fellow Said Business School and Templeton College, University of Oxford)
• Tom Wilson (Head of Organisation Dept., TUC)

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'The Equal Pay Crisis'

• Dr.Hazel Conley (QMC)
• Bronwyn McKenna (UNISON)

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'Tripartism'

• John Kelly, (Professor of Industrial Relations, Department of Management, Birkbeck College)

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'Trade Union Internationalism'

• Stuart Howard, ITF Assistant General Secretary

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'Social Movement Unionism'

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'Public service workers campaigning for social justice'

14th October

• Dr Michael Lavalette, Associate Professor of Social Work / Care, Liverpool Hope University, and co-founder of the Social Work Action Network (SWAN)
• Doug Nicholls, National Secretary, Unite (T&G) National Secretary, Services Sector

 

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'Trade unions and political representation'

11th November

• Mark Serwotka, General Secretary, PCS
• Martin Upchurch, Professor of International Employment Relations, Middlesex University Business School

 

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'After the crunch: pensions under threat'

9th December

• Christine Blower, General Secretary, National Union of Teachers
• Prof. Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting, Essex Business School (tbc)

 

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To celebrate the winner of LabourStart's 'Labour Photo of the Year - 2008', we bring you Robert Day's photo 'Trade Unions are Fun!'

Trade unionists marching through Birmingham, led by banners and drummers, on 24th April 2008. Winner of 'Labour Photo of the Year - 2008', by Robert Day, a branch secretary with the British public sector union, PCS, in Birmingham. For more images of work and labour, including the runners up in the LabourStart competition, see our Gallery page.

http://www.labourstart.org/

 

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