2008 saw the Institute’s profile grow at TUC congress with 2 fringe meetings.

MONDAY FRINGE

Trade Union Freedoms; Where Next?

We got off to a great start- Monday evening’s fringe meeting was organised in association with the United Campaign
speakers included:
Tony Benn, Vice President, United Campaign; Amanda Brown who spoke on behalf of Christine Blower, Acting Gen Sec NUT; Brian Caton, Gen Sec POA; Bob Crow, Gen Sec RMT and United Campaign Chair; Keith Ewing, President IER; John McDonnell, MP; Derek Simpson, Joint Gen Sec UNITE; Sarah Veale, TUC; Tony Woodley, Joint Gen Sec UNITE
John Hendy, QC, chaired,

The fringe followed on from a lively debate on Employment Rights on congress floor. Here are some pictures of the fringe

Derek Simpson, Tony Woddley, John Hendy QC: The Joint General Secretaries of Unite the Trade Union join the platform

Join us for our 2nd fringe meeting at TUC Congress.

1PM or end of morning session

MEETING ROOM 4 3rd Floor Room 3

• Speakers confirmed include:
  1. Margie Jaffe, Unison
  2. Kamaljeet Jandu, GMB
  3. Sanjiv Sachdev, Kingston University and author of IER publication, The Impact of Contracting Out on Employment Relations in Public Services (2005)

Speakers’ papers from
The Quality of Working Life: Promoting a Healthy Agenda
a conference held in Liverpool
Tuesday 24th June 2008

Link to the Institute’s Publication Regulating Health and Safety at Work: An Agenda for Change?
by Phil James and David Walters

Link to the Institute’s Submission to the Dame Carol Black Review of the Health of Britain’s Working Age Population

The Chair of the Institute, John Hendy QC, will address SERTUC’s International Conference.

This event brings together trade unionists and their friends in London, the South East and East of England to discuss issues of international development, politics and trade union solidarity.

This FREE event includes workshops on a wide range of issues including:

· trade unions under attack in Colombia, Iran and Iraq
· the control of water
· the future for a ‘Social Europe’
· the rise of the far right

A North West Event

Tuesday 24th February 2009, the Adelphi Hotel, Lime Street, Liverpool

Sponsored by UNITE the Union (Region 6) and Thompsons Solicitors

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, known as TUPE, govern how workers are treated following the transfer of a business or a change in service provision. The original aim of the Regulations was to strengthen the rights of workers involved in transfers, providing them with continuity of employment and the same terms and conditions as they had prior to the transfer.