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Nick Clark

Position

Employment Relations Senior Research Fellow

Background/Career

Nick has been active at all levels of the trade union movement, beginning as a shop steward, then national negotiator, in a packaging multinational (1978-1983). Following this he carried out research at the Labour Research Department (1983-87) and print union SOGAT (later the GPMU). Moving to the TUC in 1994, he led a project to engage UK unions in establishing European Works Councils, going on to develop the TUC’s work on migrant workers.

 

In 2003, he was seconded as a Visiting Fellow to Corpus Christi College, Oxford to conduct a programme of study on Migrant Workers and Trade Unions. He represented the TUC on the board of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority from its formation in April 2005 until January 2009.

In 2005, he took up a policy post in the General Secretary’s office at the Public & Commercial Services Union, before joining WLRI in April 2009.

 

Research interests and expertise

Trade unions and politics, collective bargaining, European Works Councils, temporary agency work, organisation of migrant workers, privatisation and restructuring.

 

Contact details

Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel: 020 7320 3019

e-mail: n.clark@londonmet.ac.uk

Publications

 

Book Chapters

2010

Clark, N. (2010) Migration and work: discrimination obligatory? in Handbook of Discrimination at Work (eds. Wright, T. and Conley, H) ; London: Gower (forthcoming)

2007

Clark, N. & Hardy, J. (2007) European Union enlargement, workers and migration: implications for trade unions in the United Kingdom and Poland, in Trade union responses to globalization: A review by the Global Union Research Network, (ed. Verena Schmidt); ILO and GURN, Geneva; ISBN 978-92-2-119860-4

2004

Clark, N. & Balchin, A. (2004) Migrant workers employment rights in The Newcomers Handbook; (ed. Will Summerville) CESI, first edition; ISBN 1-870563-74-3

2002

Clark, N. and Bamford, S. (2002) Relationship between EWC members, with the workforce, and with the trade unions in European Works Councils - cases of good practice; CC.OO, Alpha Conseil, FNV Formaat & TUC.

Booklets

1997

Clark, N. (1997) European Works Councils - what will the opt-in mean? TUC, ISBN: 1-85006-141-2

1986

Clark, N. (1986) Part Time Workers, Labour Research Department, ISBN 0 900 508 892

1985

Clark, N. (1985) Sick Pay, a Negotiators’ Guide, Labour Research Department, ISBN: 0 900 508 760

 

Reports

2010

Clark, N. (2010) Trade union recognition and the independent healthcare sector, a literature review for the Royal College of Nursing, London: RCN 2010

2009

Jefferys, S & Clark, N. (2009) UK National Background Paper, ARENAS Restructuring Seminars, ILOITC on behalf of European Commission: http://arenas.itcilo.org/countries/united-kingdom/presentation-of-nbp/national-background-paper

2006

Clark, N. (2006) Building a stronger union – is merger the way forward for PCS? Public & Commercial Services Union

2004

Clark, N. (2004) 'Propping up rural and small town Britain: migrant workers from the new Europe’, TUC, ISBN: 1 85006 724 4

Shakhno, S. and Clark, N. (2004) Gone West: Ukrainians at Work in the UK, TUC, ISBN: 1 85006 701 5

2003

Clark, N. (2003) Overworked, Underpaid and Over Here, TUC, ISBN: 1 85006 681 7

1985

Clark, N., Critchley, R., Kline, R., Hall, D & Whitfield, D. (1985) Sheffield Jobs Audit, Sheffield City Council Department of Economic Development

 

Papers

2009

Clark, N. (2009) Setting up a European Observatory on cross border activities within temporary agency work - A Survey of social partners in Member States, Brussels:
Eurociett/Unieuropa,  http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/iportal.nsf/pages/taw_social_crossEn

Rogers, A. with Anderson, B. & Clark, N. (2009) Recession, Vulnerable Workers and Immigration: a background report, COMPAS Report, April 2009

2007

Anderson, B., Clark, N. & Parutis, V., (2007)  New EU Members? Migrant Workers' Challenges and Opportunities to UK Trades Unions: a Polish and Lithuanian Case Study, COMPAS Report for the Trades Union Congress
www.tuc.org.uk/extras/migrantchallenges.pdf

2005

Clark, N. (2005) A level playing field?. Presented at Institute of Emplyment Rights conference on Migrant Workers, June 2005

1987

Clark, N. (1987)  From Productivity to Flexibility  “From Productivity Deals to Flexibility at Work” conference at University of Warwick, 15th December 1986. Published in the conference proceedings, Ed. Peter Fairbrother. ISBN 0 947829 06 7

Journal Articles

1987

Clark, N., Critchley, R., Hall, D., Kline, R. & Whitfield, D. (1987) The Sheffield Council Jobs Audit—why and how? Local Economy 1–4 (Feb 1987), pp. 3–21.

Other Publications

1997

Miller, D. & Clark, N. (1997) EWCs – a manual for trade union trainers, TUC

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