My dissertation examined the decentralisation of collective bargaining under the Single Status local government national agreement.
David has over 13 years experience of working full-time within the UK trade union movement, within both public and private sectors, where he has held a variety of senior positions including researcher, senior adviser, speech writer, negotiator and national policy adviser.
Following a period being a shop steward in local government, David’s first full-time trade union position was with
Unison, the public services union, where he focused regionally on members within local government and health. David then moved on to the Graphical, Paper and Media Union focusing on print, paper and packaging where as the union Industrial and Economic Adviser. This work focused on research to support the union’s policies, working with Members of Parliament on campaigns, producing national wage claims and speech writing. He then went on to become the union’s Vocational Training Adviser, working to ensure greater employee voice in decision making around training. .
Through union mergers he joined Amicus and then subsequently
Unite the Union, where he worked until March 2008. Within Unite, the UK’s largest trade union covering the majority of sectors across the UK economy, he worked as the union’s National Training Adviser focusing on promoting dialogue between unions and employers over training and education and he held a number of positions on European trade union bodies, including the
European Metalworkers Federation. He was also the union’s expert on information and consultation and represented the union in claims to the
Central Arbitration Committee.
David’s interests are in restructuring, skills, trade unions and social dialogue.
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