Union Building Conference 2018

Union Building Conference.

Programme

There will be some flexibility on timings to accommodate parliamentary colleagues who have one vote to attend on Friday pm in the House .

Workshop themes and choices can also be made by the participants.

Friday

12 onwards arrivals and lunch

12.30 Lunch served

Registration.

2.00 Opening Plenary – Introductions, Introduction to guest unions, overview of conference, Ian Lawrence and Kate Fallon – new examples of practical co-operation between unions, Paul De Felice, a new trade union official apprenticeship course, Edda Nicolson, working on the GFTU History, Grace Millar union rebuilding in New Zealand, Nadine Rae, compulsory recruitment training. 3.30 Workshop choices. Engaging young people in the unions, recruitment training, union officials’ apprenticeships, supporting each other in casework.

5.00

Close workshops, Plenary, Parliamentary report, Lloyd Russel Moyles.

6.00

Evening Meal.

7.30

Cultural Work and the GFTU, rebuilding the imagination.

9.00

Socialising/Networking

Saturday

Breakfast

9.30 Plenary – Trade Union Education. Launching the GFTU’s new book on trade union education, a session facilitated by Alan Smith, Mike Seal, Christine Smith, Catharyn Lawrence, Lyndsey McDowell, Gawain Little. 11.00 Workshop Choices, what we want from the GFTU, more about training the trainers, a new way of learning, becoming a learning union.

1.00

Lunch

2.00

Plenary – Transforming trade union and employment law, Sonya McKay.

3.30 Workshop Choices, supporting the IER Manifesto in our Unions, sectoral collective bargaining, employment law training in unions, accessing legal services and the GFTU offer.

5.00

Close Workshops, Plenary, introducing the international debate.

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