Author: Dave

The Work and Employment Research Unit at the University of Greenwich (London) is organising an international workshop on ‘Transnational industrial relations and the search for alternatives’ to be held on 31 May – 1 June. The event will feature speakers from unions, NGOs and universities from all around the world. Registration is £160 including dinner at the Trafalgar in Greenwich, or £80 for students. The keynote speakers will be Sarah Finke from the International Transport Workers’ Federation, and Guglielmo Meardi from Warwick Business School.

For details see  http://werugreenwich.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/tnir-workshop-programme-available-2/

To register, please contact Lef Kretsos (l.kretsos@greenwich.ac.uk)

Labour movement activists with a university degree are invited to apply for the Global Labour University (GLU) one-year masters programmes on globalisation for, being held in Germany and India. Applications have to be submitted  before 1 March 2012 and have to be endorsed by a trade union. The courses are held in English. Some scholarships are available. Know anyone who would be interested? Please see details at http://www.global-labour-university.org/.

GLI is working with Unite the Union and the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) to develop new residential courses for workplace union representatives in the food, drink and tobacco sector. These are designed to build union power in the workplace, and build national and international coordination between workplace representatives. The food manufacturing sector – big companies who make the stuff you buy in supermarket chiller cabinets – is notorious for poverty wages, tough working conditions and precarious employment.

GLI’s new preparatory project with the International Transportworkers’ Federation (ITF) is set to launch in September 2011, exploring the growth and impact of informal and precarious work on transport in three pilot cities in Africa and Asia, and the implications for the organising strategies of ITF affiliated unions.

GLI’s team is to be joined by Jane Logan, working with us as an intern researcher.  The internship is the result of our cooperation with the Institute for Development Policy & Management at Manchester University, where Jane recently completed her Masters degree.